Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 12:00
Wind (32.7 GW) and overcast solar (36.9 GW) drive 19.5 GW net export at a mildly negative price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 7 July 2026 is heavily oversupplied, with 80.3 GW of generation against 60.9 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of approximately 19.5 GW. Wind contributes 32.7 GW combined (onshore 27.7, offshore 5.0) and solar adds 36.9 GW despite full overcast — consistent with high diffuse irradiance under warm summer cloud cover. The 93% renewable share has pushed the day-ahead price to −0.8 EUR/MWh, a mild negative reflecting ample cross-border transmission capacity absorbing most of the excess. Brown coal remains online at 3.6 GW, likely reflecting inflexible must-run commitments, while gas has been curtailed to just 1.7 GW, both appropriate market responses to the prevailing price signal.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a ceiling of pearl-grey cloud, invisible suns and tireless winds flood the wires with more power than a nation can drink. The price dips below zero — a whispered confession that abundance, too, carries its burdens.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 46%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
32.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.9 GW
Solar
80.3 GW
Total generation
+19.5 GW
Net export
-0.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.0°C / 12 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
51
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.9 GW dominates the foreground and middle-ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green summer farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast pearl-white sky. Wind onshore 27.7 GW fills the mid-ground and right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in the breeze, receding into atmospheric haze. Wind offshore 5.0 GW appears in the far distance at the left horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines standing in a sliver of grey sea visible through a gap in the hills. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single stack emitting thin white exhaust, nestled among trees at the left middle-ground. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy plumes of white steam drifting into the overcast sky, and a low-slung power station with conveyor belts feeding lignite. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a small compact CCGT unit with a single gleaming exhaust stack and minimal vapour, partially hidden behind a tree line in the centre-left background. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river with a low-head weir and a stone powerhouse at the right foreground edge. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible smokestack behind the brown coal plant, almost lost in haze. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a bright, luminous, diffuse midday light with no shadows and no visible sun disc, the clouds a layered milky white-grey ceiling. Temperature is 23°C: lush midsummer vegetation, full green deciduous canopies, wildflowers in meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive tones, just soft silvery light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T10:20 UTC · Download image