Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 15:00
Solar at 41.4 GW and onshore wind at 24.9 GW drive 23.7 GW of net exports and negative prices.
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Germany is generating 79.8 GW against a consumption of 56.1 GW, yielding a net export of 23.7 GW to neighbouring grids. Solar contributes 41.4 GW despite 89% cloud cover, reflecting high installed capacity and sufficient diffuse and direct radiation (364 W/m²), while onshore wind adds a strong 24.9 GW at moderate wind speeds. The day-ahead price has turned negative at −4.1 EUR/MWh, consistent with this level of oversupply and indicating curtailment or export at a loss. Thermal baseload from brown coal (3.0 GW), hard coal (1.4 GW), and gas (1.5 GW) remains online at minimum stable generation levels, likely due to contractual obligations and system inertia requirements.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sky pours silver watts through veils of cloud, and turbines churn the summer wind until the grid itself must beg the world to drink its overflow. So much abundance that the price turns ghost—a negative phantom haunting the merit order's empty throne.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
27.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.4 GW
Solar
79.8 GW
Total generation
+23.7 GW
Net export
-4.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 364.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.4 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than half the canvas, angled south on metal racking across gentle rolling green hills; onshore wind 24.9 GW fills the upper-right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; offshore wind 2.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a hazy river; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest exhaust; brown coal 3.0 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with flowing water in the middle distance. Time is 3 PM on a summer afternoon: full daylight but an overcast sky with 89% cloud cover — a thick layer of grey-white stratocumulus diffusing the sun, yet bright enough that shadows are faint; patches of direct sunlight (364 W/m²) break through in places, casting warm highlights on the solar panels. Temperature 21.8°C: lush midsummer vegetation, full green deciduous canopy, wildflowers in meadows. The negative electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open, almost drowsy atmosphere — no tension, expansive pale sky, serene mood. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module, and cooling tower, dramatic compositional depth from foreground panels to distant horizon turbines. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T13:20 UTC · Download image