Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 14:00
Wind and solar together deliver over 59 GW under full overcast, driving net exports of 9.2 GW and near-floor prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 69.6 GW against 60.4 GW of consumption, yielding a net export of 9.2 GW. Wind provides the largest single contribution at 29.5 GW combined (onshore 25.0 GW, offshore 4.5 GW), while solar delivers 30.3 GW despite complete overcast — indicating thick but diffuse cloud cover rather than clear-sky irradiance. The renewable share of 93.2% and day-ahead price of 9.8 EUR/MWh reflect a classic summer oversupply pattern, with thermal baseload from brown coal (2.9 GW) and gas (1.5 GW) running at or near technical minimums. Biomass at 3.7 GW and hydro at 1.4 GW provide their usual steady contributions; hard coal at 0.3 GW is essentially at standby.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines churn like congregations of steel prophets, and the diffuse light wrings power from silicon fields no sun dares touch. The coal plants idle at the margins, their cooling towers exhaling thin ghosts into a world that barely needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 43%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
29.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.3 GW
Solar
69.6 GW
Total generation
+9.2 GW
Net export
9.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
48
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.3 GW fills the broad centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky; wind onshore 25.0 GW dominates the left and centre as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears in the distant far left as a cluster of turbines rising from a narrow strip of grey sea; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a modest stack and fuel storage dome; brown coal 2.9 GW occupies a small portion of the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of white steam; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT block with a single exhaust stack and barely visible heat shimmer; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in a wooded valley at the right edge; hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small stack nearly idle in the deep background. TIME: early afternoon under full 100% overcast — bright but entirely diffuse daylight, no shadows, no direct sun, a uniform pearl-grey sky from horizon to zenith. Temperature 21.5°C, lush midsummer green foliage on deciduous trees, tall grass swaying in 16.6 km/h wind. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive, reflecting the very low electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of greens, greys, and muted silvers; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and blade pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust diffusers. The composition conveys a peaceful industrial pastoral — technology and nature coexisting under a quiet summer sky. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T12:20 UTC · Download image