Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 11:00
Wind (31.8 GW) and solar (34.4 GW) drive 91.8% renewables, creating 15.7 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 77.6 GW against 61.9 GW consumption, yielding a net export of 15.7 GW and pushing day-ahead prices down to 4.9 EUR/MWh. Wind contributes 31.8 GW combined (onshore 26.6 GW, offshore 5.2 GW) and solar delivers 34.4 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting the high diffuse irradiance of a midsummer midday with 92 W/m² direct radiation reaching panels through the overcast. Lignite at 3.8 GW and gas at 2.1 GW remain online at near-minimum stable levels, likely providing inertia and balancing reserves rather than responding to any economic dispatch signal at this price. The 91.8% renewable share represents a strong but increasingly routine summer operating state, with cross-border exports absorbing the excess generation comfortably.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a milk-white sky the windmills churn their silver hymns, while sunlight, veiled yet vast, drowns the grid in more power than the nation can drink. Coal embers barely glow, relics murmuring in a world the wind has claimed.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 44%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
31.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.4 GW
Solar
77.6 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
4.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as an enormous field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light; wind onshore 26.6 GW fills the centre and left-centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears in the far background as a line of turbines visible on a hazy sea horizon at the left edge; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, beside a modest lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a single stack and stored timber nearby, placed between the cooling towers and the wind turbines; natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass plant; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the mid-ground; hard coal 0.4 GW appears as a single dark industrial stack barely smoking at the far-left edge. The sky is fully overcast with a smooth, luminous white-grey cloud layer — full July midday daylight at 11:00 with no direct sun, bright and even illumination casting soft shadows. Temperature 21°C: lush green midsummer vegetation, full deciduous canopy, wildflower meadows between turbine bases. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the extremely low electricity price — no oppression, no drama, just vast quiet abundance. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and reinforced concrete ribbing. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T09:20 UTC · Download image