Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 13:00
Solar at 45 GW and onshore wind at 24.3 GW drive 25 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on a midsummer afternoon, the German grid is generating 82.7 GW against a consumption of 57.7 GW, yielding a net export position of 25.0 GW. Solar dominates at 45.0 GW under partly cloudy skies with 313 W/m² direct irradiance, complemented by a strong onshore wind contribution of 24.3 GW. The renewable share stands at 93.2%, pushing the day-ahead price to −3.5 EUR/MWh — a reflection of abundant supply rather than any system stress. Thermal baseload remains online at reduced output (3.0 GW lignite, 1.5 GW gas, 1.2 GW hard coal), consistent with minimum-run constraints and ancillary service provision.
Grid poem Claude AI
A continent of glass and steel drinks the noon sun until the grid overflows with light, and turbines on every ridge turn the summer wind into a river of surplus. The price falls below zero — the machines are paying the world to take their harvest.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 54%
Biomass 4%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
26.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.0 GW
Solar
82.7 GW
Total generation
+25.0 GW
Net export
-3.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.4°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 313.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.0 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under a high summer sun partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds occupying roughly 45% of the sky. Wind onshore 24.3 GW fills the midground and extends to the horizon as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines on white tubular towers, their rotors visibly turning in a moderate breeze, scattered across the hills behind the solar arrays. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a thin line of smaller turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon where flat land meets sky. Biomass 3.6 GW is represented by a modest biogas facility with a green domed digester tank and a small exhaust stack with faint heat shimmer, nestled among trees at the right edge. Brown coal 3.0 GW appears in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily into the bright sky. Hydro 1.7 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a creek cutting through the lower-left foreground, water sparkling in the sunlight. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze, positioned behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a small traditional power station with a rectangular chimney and conveyor belt, barely visible behind the gas plant, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure. The lighting is full bright early-afternoon midsummer daylight at 13:00, with warm direct sunlight casting short shadows, a luminous partly cloudy sky of blue with white-grey cumulus, lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting field margins, and a general atmosphere of serene abundance and calm openness reflecting the negative electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to hazy blue distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T11:20 UTC · Download image