Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 13:00
Solar and onshore wind dominate at 94% renewables, driving 11.9 GW net exports and a slightly negative price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 61.3 GW against 49.4 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 11.9 GW. Solar contributes 32.4 GW despite 99% cloud cover, indicating diffuse irradiance is still substantial at midday in July; onshore wind adds 18.5 GW with moderate 15.1 km/h winds, and together with offshore wind (1.9 GW), biomass (3.6 GW), and hydro (1.3 GW), renewables reach 94.2% of generation. The day-ahead price has turned slightly negative at −0.6 EUR/MWh, consistent with the oversupply and reflecting limited appetite from neighboring markets to absorb the excess. Thermal generation remains modest — brown coal at 2.0 GW likely running on must-run constraints, natural gas at 1.4 GW providing residual balancing, and hard coal nearly offline at 0.2 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a vault of silver cloud the silent panels drink what light they can, while turbines turn in slow accord across the summer plain. The grid exhales its bounty past the borders, and the price of power slips beneath the zero line like a river forgetting its name.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 53%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
20.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.4 GW
Solar
61.3 GW
Total generation
+11.9 GW
Net export
-0.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 79.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.4 GW dominates the foreground and center as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse white sky; onshore wind 18.5 GW fills the middle distance and right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate wind; offshore wind 1.9 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; biomass 3.6 GW is represented by a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and a single low exhaust stack emitting thin white vapor, placed left of center; hydro 1.3 GW shows as a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-left corner; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 1.4 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. The sky is entirely overcast at 99% cloud cover — a luminous, flat, bright-white to pale-grey canopy with no visible sun disc, yet full July midday daylight floods the scene evenly with no harsh shadows. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and almost weightless, reflecting the near-zero negative electricity price. Temperature is a mild 21.7 °C: lush green summer vegetation, wildflowers at field edges, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Rolling central German landscape with gentle hills. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich layered color, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T11:20 UTC · Download image