Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 17:00
Strong onshore wind and residual solar drive 90.6% renewable generation, yielding 5.2 GW net exports under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a warm July evening, wind dominates the German grid with 33.6 GW combined onshore and offshore output, complemented by 19.5 GW of solar generation persisting despite 99% cloud cover—diffuse irradiance and long summer daylight sustain meaningful PV output even under overcast skies. Renewables account for 90.6% of the 64.3 GW generation mix, with brown coal providing 3.7 GW of baseload and gas-fired plants contributing just 2.1 GW. Generation exceeds the 59.1 GW consumption level by 5.2 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately 5.2 GW to neighboring markets. The day-ahead price of 66.6 EUR/MWh remains moderate despite the strong renewable share, likely reflecting interconnector constraints, evening ramp expectations, and sustained summer cooling demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey-veiled sky cannot silence the wind's iron chorus—thirty-three gigawatts of turning steel sing the old coal plants to sleep. The grid exhales its surplus across every border, generous as a summer storm that has forgotten how to stop.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 30%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
33.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.5 GW
Solar
64.3 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
66.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 155.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.8 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the center to the far right horizon, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; solar 19.5 GW appears as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle slopes in the center-left foreground, their surfaces reflecting muted grey-white light from the overcast sky; wind offshore 4.8 GW is visible as a distant cluster of larger turbines rising from a hazy river or lake horizon at far right; brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the left middle ground as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting eastward, adjacent to a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile; biomass 3.7 GW sits near the left foreground as a compact biomass CHP plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single modest smokestack emitting thin pale vapor; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a small modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and compact turbine hall, positioned between the coal plant and the wind farms; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the far left; hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible older power station chimney behind the brown coal towers, almost dormant. The sky is 99% overcast with a thick, continuous blanket of warm grey stratocumulus clouds, but the lower western horizon glows with a fading orange-red band of dusk light at 17:00 Berlin time, casting long amber-tinted shadows across the landscape. The atmosphere is warm and humid at 25°C—lush midsummer green vegetation, full deciduous canopies, wildflowers in the foreground meadow. The mood is moderately heavy and close, reflecting the 66.6 EUR/MWh price—not oppressive but laden, the air thick with summer moisture. 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 expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine, panel, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels, no human figures.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T15:21 UTC · Download image