Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 07:00
Strong onshore wind anchors an 89% renewable mix under heavy overcast, with 2.6 GW net imports bridging the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 07:00 on a heavily overcast July morning, wind dominates the German grid at 24.1 GW combined (onshore 20.2 GW, offshore 3.9 GW), delivering the bulk of an 88.8% renewable generation share. Solar output is subdued at 8.4 GW despite the season, constrained by 94% cloud cover and negligible direct radiation of just 4.0 W/m². Domestic generation of 42.2 GW falls short of 44.8 GW consumption, requiring approximately 2.6 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 44.2 EUR/MWh is moderate, reflecting a near-balanced system where residual thermal generation—brown coal at 2.4 GW, gas at 2.1 GW, and minimal hard coal at 0.2 GW—fills a small but necessary baseload and flexibility role alongside 4.0 GW of biomass and 1.0 GW of hydro.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey dawn presses down upon a land of turning blades, where wind alone holds back the dark and coal smolders in the shade. The grid draws breath from distant shores, its hunger barely met, while summer hides behind the clouds and will not show its face just yet.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 20%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.4 GW
Solar
42.2 GW
Total generation
2.5 GW
Net import
44.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.2 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, occupying nearly half the canvas; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon at far right; solar 8.4 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the mid-ground left-of-centre, their glass surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light, no sunlight glinting; biomass 4.0 GW stands as a group of industrial wood-chip and biogas plants with squat chimneys and thin pale exhaust plumes at the left foreground; brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting heavy white steam plumes; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river dam with spillway visible along a wooded riverbank in the lower left corner; hard coal 0.2 GW is a single distant smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal plant. The sky is dawn at 07:00 in early July: a pale blue-grey pre-dawn luminescence suffuses the upper sky, no direct sun visible, horizon tinged with the faintest warm glow behind a thick unbroken ceiling of 94% cloud cover rendered in layered grey and silver tones. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and humid, befitting a moderate electricity price. Lush midsummer vegetation—deep green deciduous trees, tall grasses, wildflower meadows—covers the rolling terrain at 16.9°C. Turbine blades show gentle rotation consistent with 7.4 km/h ground-level wind. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich colour palette of greens, greys, silvers and muted blues, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering detail on all energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 07:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T05:20 UTC · Download image