Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 12:00
Solar at 44 GW and wind at 27 GW push Germany to 22.5 GW net export and negative prices at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 3 July 2026, Germany's renewable fleet delivers 76.2 GW — 93.2% of total generation — driven by 44.1 GW of solar and 26.9 GW of combined wind. Total generation of 81.8 GW against 59.3 GW of consumption yields a net export position of 22.5 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −1.9 EUR/MWh as neighbouring markets absorb excess power. Despite 88% cloud cover, diffuse and residual direct irradiance (254 W/m²) sustain strong solar output across the country's installed base. Thermal plants remain online at minimal levels — 2.9 GW lignite, 1.5 GW gas, 1.1 GW hard coal — likely running at technical minimums or fulfilling ancillary service obligations rather than responding to price signals.
Grid poem Claude AI
A midsummer flood of silent light and tireless wind drowns the grid in more power than the nation can drink. The old furnaces idle, their fires barely breathing, while electrons spill across every border like a river that has forgotten its banks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 54%
Biomass 4%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.1 GW
Solar
81.8 GW
Total generation
+22.4 GW
Net export
-1.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.8°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
88.0% / 254.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.1 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly half the canvas, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a diffuse, bright overcast sky. Wind onshore 24.5 GW fills the upper third of the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning steadily in moderate wind, arrayed along green ridgelines. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines visible on the far horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage dome to the left middle ground. Brown coal 2.9 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir and small powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the foreground. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, positioned beside the lignite plant. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a small conventional boiler house with a rectangular chimney, barely smoking, tucked behind the gas plant. The sky is bright but heavily overcast at 88% cloud cover, with patches where direct sunlight breaks through in soft shafts — full midday brightness, diffuse and luminous, no harsh shadows. Lush green July vegetation: tall grass, wildflowers, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature around 20°C gives a pleasant, temperate atmosphere. The mood is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open sky, no oppressive weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of greens, silvery blues, and muted greys, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant turbines and towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T10:20 UTC · Download image