Grid Poet — 4 July 2026, 12:00
Solar at 41 GW drives 94% renewable share and 11.6 GW net export at negative prices on a July midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 41.0 GW, representing 66% of total output, supported by 12.3 GW of combined onshore and offshore wind. With total generation at 62.0 GW against 50.4 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 11.6 GW. The negative day-ahead price of −3.1 EUR/MWh reflects this oversupply and is typical for a midsummer midday hour with strong solar irradiance and moderate wind. Thermal baseload remains minimal, with brown coal at 1.9 GW and gas at 1.4 GW likely constrained to must-run obligations or ancillary service provision, while biomass contributes a steady 3.8 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the Rhineland plain, drowning the price below zero while coal embers flicker like forgotten prayers. The grid exhales its bounty across every border, a nation of glass panels crowned in midsummer light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 66%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
12.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.0 GW
Solar
62.0 GW
Total generation
+11.6 GW
Net export
-3.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
46.0% / 494.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
39
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.0 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, their blue-black surfaces glinting under strong midday sun; wind onshore 10.6 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers dotting green hillsides, blades turning gently in light breeze; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on the distant hazy horizon; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fired power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes at the left-centre; brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a small area at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint steam wisps rising above a lignite plant; natural gas 1.4 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal flue gas; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a river in the mid-left; hard coal 0.3 GW is a single subdued smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The sky is midday bright with broken cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky, allowing strong direct sunlight to illuminate the panels and cast crisp shadows; the atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price. Summer vegetation is lush — green deciduous trees, golden-green wheat fields, wildflowers along field margins — at approximately 20°C. The composition is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue haze at the horizon, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-04T10:20 UTC · Download image