Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 13:00
Wind and solar together deliver 58 GW under overcast skies, pushing 6.4 GW of net exports at low prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is running at 92.9% renewable share this hour, driven by a strong combination of 22.9 GW onshore wind and 30.6 GW solar despite full cloud cover—diffuse irradiance is still substantial at midday in July. Generation exceeds consumption by 6.4 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately 6.4 GW to neighboring markets. The day-ahead price of 20.4 EUR/MWh reflects this comfortable oversupply, suppressed by the high renewable output. Thermal generation is minimal: brown coal holds a 3.0 GW baseload floor while gas contributes just 1.6 GW, with hard coal nearly offline at 0.3 GW—consistent with merit-order displacement under these conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a shroud of silver cloud the turbines churn like restless gods, their invisible breath flooding the wires with more power than the nation can hold. The old lignite towers exhale their last thin sighs, dwarfed by a green tide that spills across every border.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
27.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.6 GW
Solar
68.1 GW
Total generation
+6.4 GW
Net export
20.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 71.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 30.6 GW fills the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, their glass surfaces reflecting the flat white overcast sky. Wind offshore 4.6 GW appears on the far horizon as a row of larger turbines standing in a pale grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the cloud layer, adjacent to a conveyor belt feeding lignite. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single low stack with faint exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible emissions, tucked between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at centre-left with water cascading over the spillway. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers, nearly idle. TIME AND LIGHT: early afternoon in July, full daylight but entirely overcast—a uniform bright white-grey cloud deck at 100% coverage blankets the sky, no blue visible, diffuse soft light with no harsh shadows, creating even illumination across the landscape. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price. Summer vegetation is lush—deep green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers in meadows, temperature around 21°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete texture. The composition sweeps panoramically from the industrial thermal cluster on the left through pastoral renewable landscape to the turbine-studded horizon on the right, a masterwork canvas of Germany's energy transition. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T11:20 UTC · Download image