Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 11:00
Wind and solar together produce 69.4 GW, pushing 19.8 GW of net exports and a slightly negative price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is in a strong net export position at 19.8 GW, driven by a convergence of robust onshore wind at 25.0 GW and substantial solar output at 41.9 GW despite 68% cloud cover. The renewable share reaches 92.7%, with thermal generation — gas at 1.7 GW, hard coal at 1.8 GW, and brown coal at 2.4 GW — running near minimum stable levels, likely constrained by must-run obligations and ancillary service requirements. The day-ahead price has dipped slightly negative at −1.1 EUR/MWh, consistent with the magnitude of oversupply but not extreme, suggesting neighbouring markets are absorbing most of the excess. Biomass at 3.7 GW and hydro at 1.6 GW provide steady baseload contributions, rounding out a generation stack that far exceeds domestic demand of 60.7 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines drink a summer wind that pours across the plain while crystalline panels catch the fractured light through veils of cloud, and the old coal towers, diminished sentinels, breathe their quiet plumes into an age that no longer needs them. The price falls below zero — the grid exhales more than the nation can hold, offering its bounty to every border.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
27.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.9 GW
Solar
80.5 GW
Total generation
+19.8 GW
Net export
-1.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
68.0% / 279.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
51
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.9 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching toward the horizon, their blue-black surfaces reflecting diffuse midday light; onshore wind 25.0 GW fills the upper half and left third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, blades visibly turning in moderate wind across green summer hills; offshore wind 2.5 GW appears in the far background as a small cluster of turbines on a hazy sea horizon at the painting's left edge; brown coal 2.4 GW is rendered as two modest hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes in the far left middle ground; hard coal 1.8 GW stands nearby as a single dark industrial stack with minimal exhaust; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer to the left of centre; biomass 3.7 GW is depicted as a medium-sized wood-clad power station with a short chimney and a pile of timber beside it, placed in the centre-left; hydro 1.6 GW shows as a small concrete weir with rushing water in the foreground stream. Time is 11:00 on a summer day: full daylight with a high sun partially veiled by 68% broken cumulus clouds, creating patches of bright direct light and soft shadow across the landscape. Temperature 18.7°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers, vibrant summer meadows. Wind at 18.2 km/h animates grass, leaves, and cloud movement. The negative price creates a calm, expansive, open sky — spacious and serene, not oppressive. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, golden-green palette, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to misty blue hills, dramatic yet tranquil mood, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T09:20 UTC · Download image