Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 17:00
Onshore wind and diffuse solar drive 93% renewable generation, pushing net exports to 4.7 GW at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a summer Sunday evening, the German grid is generating 54.3 GW against 49.5 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of approximately 4.7 GW. Wind onshore dominates at 23.1 GW, complemented by 19.6 GW of solar that remains substantial despite 82% cloud cover — consistent with diffuse irradiance on long July days. Thermal generation is minimal: lignite contributes 1.9 GW of baseload, gas provides 1.4 GW for flexibility, and hard coal is nearly offline at 0.2 GW. The day-ahead price of €4.9/MWh reflects the oversupply condition and high 93.4% renewable share, creating strong incentives for flexible demand and storage uptake.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind's restless choir drowns out the furnace hum, and the grid exhales its bounty across every border. Even the clouded sun refuses to yield, pouring pale light through a veil until the turbines inherit the darkening hour.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 36%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
26.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.6 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
+4.7 GW
Net export
4.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
82.0% / 47.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
45
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into the hazy distance; solar 19.6 GW fills the lower-left foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled southward on open farmland; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of compact wood-chip power plants with rectangular buildings and short stacks trailing thin white exhaust; wind offshore 3.0 GW is visible on the far horizon as a line of taller turbines standing in a silvery sliver of the North Sea; brown coal 1.9 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting faint steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor; natural gas 1.4 GW sits beside them as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack and minimal flue gas; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a valley at the left edge. The sky is a dusk scene at 17:00 in early July — the sun is still above the horizon but heavily veiled by 82% cloud cover, producing a diffuse warm-grey overcast with a faint orange-amber glow along the western horizon; upper sky transitions to soft steel-blue. Moderate breeze bends summer grasses and wildflowers. Temperature is a pleasant 20°C; lush midsummer vegetation — full green canopies on deciduous trees, tall wheat in adjacent fields. The low price and oversupply lend the atmosphere a calm, expansive openness. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth and luminosity — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T15:20 UTC · Download image