Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 12:00
Solar (32 GW) and wind (21 GW) dominate midday generation, creating 11 GW of net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 5 July 2026 is running at 94.2% renewable penetration, driven primarily by 32.0 GW of solar output and a combined 20.7 GW of wind generation. Despite 97% cloud cover, diffuse and residual direct radiation (195 W/m²) sustain strong solar yields across the country's large installed PV base. The system is producing 11.2 GW in excess of the 49.9 GW domestic load, resulting in net exports of approximately 11.2 GW to neighbouring markets and pushing the day-ahead price to −0.1 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation is minimal — 2.0 GW of brown coal likely reflects must-run obligations, while gas (1.4 GW) and hard coal (0.2 GW) provide residual balancing services.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver veil of cloud the turbines turn and panels gleam, pouring rivers of clean current across the land until the market price itself dissolves to nothing. So much power that the grid exhales its surplus to every border, and the coal plants smolder on in quiet obsolescence, ghosts of an older fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
20.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.0 GW
Solar
61.1 GW
Total generation
+11.2 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 195.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.0 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling summer farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffused white light; wind onshore 18.8 GW fills the mid-ground and right side of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and single stack emitting thin white exhaust, positioned left of centre; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 1.4 GW sits beside the coal as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the left background; hard coal 0.2 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the gas plant. The sky is a luminous but heavily overcast 97% cloud layer, bright silver-white at the zenith with no visible sun disc — full midday daylight diffused uniformly, casting soft shadowless illumination. The landscape is lush midsummer green — tall grass, wildflowers, deciduous trees in full leaf, temperature around 22°C suggesting warm humid air with a slight haze. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive tones. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich colour palette of greens, silver-greys, and muted blues, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth fading to soft haze at the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve and concrete texture. The composition conveys the overwhelming scale of renewables dwarfing the small fossil-fuel remnants at the margin. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T10:20 UTC · Download image