Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 16:00
Strong onshore wind and high solar drive 20.5 GW net exports and a slightly negative price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 76.7 GW against 56.2 GW of consumption, resulting in a net export of approximately 20.5 GW. Wind onshore at 26.7 GW and solar at 36.5 GW are the dominant sources, together accounting for 82% of total generation, while thermal plants—brown coal at 3.0 GW, natural gas at 1.4 GW, and hard coal at 1.2 GW—remain online at low output levels likely reflecting contractual obligations and provision of inertia and balancing services. The day-ahead price has turned slightly negative at −2.6 EUR/MWh, consistent with a summer afternoon where strong renewables output exceeds domestic demand and export capacity is approaching saturation. The 92.7% renewable share represents a high but increasingly routine summer performance for the German system.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of wind and sun spills past the bounds of want, flooding borders with light that no market can contain. The old towers of lignite stand like stoic sentinels, exhaling thin breaths into an afternoon that no longer needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 48%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
29.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.5 GW
Solar
76.7 GW
Total generation
+20.5 GW
Net export
-2.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
59.0% / 267.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.7 GW dominates the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the right, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 36.5 GW fills the foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward a partially clouded sun, glinting with reflected light across gentle farmland. Brown coal 3.0 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin wisps of white steam. Biomass 3.8 GW sits as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short stack and small steam plume near the left-centre. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible on the distant hazy horizon as a line of turbines standing in a pale sea. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the left edge. Natural gas 1.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and barely visible heat shimmer, positioned behind the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single dark industrial building with a low smokestack releasing a faint grey trail, partially obscured behind the cooling towers. The sky is a summer afternoon at 16:00 in central Germany: full daylight, 59% cloud cover with large cumulus clouds drifting across a warm blue sky, direct sunlight breaking through gaps and casting dappled shadows on the landscape. Temperature 21°C: lush midsummer vegetation, green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field margins. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting negative electricity prices—no oppressive haze, clear visibility to the horizon. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with meticulous industrial realism—yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T14:20 UTC · Download image