Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 06:00
Strong onshore wind leads generation under full overcast; brown coal and gas cover the gap as net imports supply 3.3 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on 7 July, wind generation dominates the German grid at 29.6 GW combined (onshore 24.0 GW, offshore 5.6 GW), delivering the bulk of a 75.8% renewable share. Brown coal provides a substantial 7.2 GW baseload contribution, with biomass at 3.9 GW and natural gas at 3.4 GW filling the conventional remainder. Total domestic generation of 49.8 GW falls 3.3 GW short of 53.1 GW consumption, requiring net imports of approximately 3.3 GW. The day-ahead price of 115.6 EUR/MWh is elevated for a summer morning with this renewable share, likely reflecting tight interconnector capacity and the residual thermal dispatch needed under heavy overcast conditions that are suppressing early-morning solar output to just 2.9 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred iron sentinels churn in the grey July dawn, their blades carving power from a sunless sky. Below, the lignite towers exhale their ancient breath, steadying the pulse of a nation waking beneath leaden clouds.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 6%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
76%
Renewable share
29.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
49.8 GW
Total generation
3.3 GW
Net import
115.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
173
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer fields into the misty distance; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 3.4 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine halls. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a squat cylindrical silo and a gently smoking stack just behind the gas plant. Solar 2.9 GW is represented by a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky, clearly producing minimal output. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a single older brick-chimney power station partially visible behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a dark river in the lower foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 99% cloud cover — a uniform ceiling of heavy grey-white stratus pressing low, creating an oppressive, heavy atmosphere reflecting the 115.6 EUR/MWh price. The lighting is early dawn at 06:00 in July: a pale blue-grey pre-dawn glow diffusing through the clouds from the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, everything lit in cool muted tones. The landscape is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, full deciduous trees — with a light breeze visible in the motion of grass and turbine blades. Style: a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with misty recession, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and panel frame. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T04:20 UTC · Download image