Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 11:00
Solar (30.2 GW) and onshore wind (19.0 GW) drive 9.6 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 on a summer Sunday morning, Germany's grid is strongly oversupplied with 59.8 GW of generation against 50.2 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of approximately 9.6 GW. Solar contributes 30.2 GW despite 93% cloud cover, indicating that high diffuse irradiance and the broad installed base are compensating effectively; onshore wind adds a robust 19.0 GW driven by moderate 18.5 km/h winds. The day-ahead price has collapsed to effectively zero, consistent with the 93.9% renewable share and substantial oversupply pressing thermal generators to minimum stable output. Brown coal at 2.0 GW and gas at 1.5 GW represent residual must-run and contractual obligations, while hard coal has retreated to a negligible 0.2 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a milk-white veil the turbines and the panels flood the wires with more than the nation can drink, and the price of lightning falls to nothing. The old coal towers exhale their last thin breath, ghosts standing watch over a kingdom that no longer needs their fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 50%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
20.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.2 GW
Solar
59.8 GW
Total generation
+9.6 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.4°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 258.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
42
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.2 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling green summer meadows; onshore wind 19.0 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; offshore wind 1.9 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on a hazy horizon above a distant river; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a single low chimney emitting pale steam at the left-centre; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin wisps of white steam; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine unit with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge; hard coal 0.2 GW is a barely visible single dark smokestack behind the gas plant, nearly idle. The sky is a luminous overcast — 93% cloud cover in thick stratiform layers, yet bright diffuse summer daylight at 11:00 pushes through, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Temperature 21°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in the grass, warm humid atmosphere. The mood is calm and expansive — near-zero electricity prices reflected in an open, serene, almost weightless quality to the air. No dramatic contrasts. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance — yet every engineering detail rendered with technical precision: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, panel bus-bars, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T09:20 UTC · Download image