Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 10:00
Wind (21.8 GW) and solar (27.3 GW) dominate, creating 8.7 GW net exports and a near-zero clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a July morning, the German grid is running at 93.6% renewable penetration, driven by a strong combination of 19.8 GW onshore wind and 27.3 GW solar despite 73% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance is still substantial at midsummer. Total generation of 57.8 GW against 49.1 GW consumption yields a net export position of 8.7 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. Thermal generation is minimal: natural gas at 1.4 GW and brown coal at 2.0 GW are likely operating on must-run constraints or ancillary service obligations, while hard coal at 0.2 GW is essentially at technical minimum. The negative residual load and near-zero clearing price reflect a typical summer mid-morning oversupply pattern that will persist until cross-border flows and storage absorption catch up.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind and sun conspire to flood the wires with light, driving price to nothing and coal to silence. Germany exhales eight gigawatts into the continent, a nation briefly breathing more power than it can consume.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 47%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
94%
Renewable share
21.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.3 GW
Solar
57.8 GW
Total generation
+8.7 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
73.0% / 205.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, catching diffuse summer daylight through a hazy overcast sky; wind onshore 19.8 GW fills the centre and extends into the distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.0 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint coastal line; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered in the left-centre as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a single low exhaust stack with faint white steam; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of steam, with a conveyor belt of dark lignite visible at the base; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT plant just beside the cooling towers, its exhaust barely visible; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the left background; hard coal 0.2 GW is a tiny, nearly dormant brick smokestack beside the gas plant with no visible emissions. The sky is 73% covered with layered summer clouds, but bright diffuse daylight floods the scene at a 10:00 summer sun angle — patches of blue visible between clouds, soft shadows on the ground. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, temperature around 21°C gives a warm pleasant atmosphere. The overall mood is calm and open, reflecting zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, generous horizon depth. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T08:20 UTC · Download image