Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 12:00
Wind and heavily overcast solar dominate at 91.8% renewables, producing a 3.3 GW net export at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 6 July 2026, the German grid is running at 91.8% renewable penetration, driven primarily by 29.9 GW of solar output despite heavy cloud cover (93%) limiting direct irradiance to just 25 W/m², indicating that diffuse radiation across Germany's vast installed PV capacity is still substantial. Wind contributes a combined 25.6 GW (20.7 onshore, 4.9 offshore), reflecting the moderate 19.7 km/h winds across central Germany. With total generation at 66.2 GW against 62.9 GW consumption, the system shows a net export position of approximately 3.3 GW, consistent with the mildly negative residual load. The day-ahead price at 43.0 EUR/MWh is moderate for a summer midday—somewhat elevated relative to what near-zero residual load might suggest, likely reflecting cross-border demand absorption and remaining thermal commitments including 3.3 GW of brown coal on must-run or contractual baseload obligations.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a veil of pewter cloud, the invisible sun still floods the silicon fields with diffuse light, while a thousand blades carve restless circles in the summer wind. The old coal furnaces smolder low, their smoke a fading whisper against the gathering tide of clean electrons.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
25.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.9 GW
Solar
66.2 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
43.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 25.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.9 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat grey-white overcast sky with no direct sunlight, diffuse light making them glow softly; wind onshore 20.7 GW fills the upper-left and middle distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind, nacelles angled into the breeze; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon above a distant grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting in the wind, beside a blocky conveyor-fed power station; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green fermenter dome and a thin exhaust, nestled among summer fields; natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a single compact CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and barely visible heat shimmer; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and weir in a wooded valley in the middle distance; hard coal 0.5 GW is a small traditional brick stack barely visible behind the lignite complex. The time is noon under a 93% overcast sky—bright but entirely diffuse daylight, no shadows, a luminous silver-white cloud ceiling pressing close, green summer vegetation lush and vivid at 18.8°C, grasses and wildflowers in the foreground swaying in the wind. The atmosphere is calm and open, consistent with a moderate electricity price, no oppression or drama. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and concrete texture. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T10:20 UTC · Download image