Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 14:00
Strong onshore wind and high solar output drive 93% renewable generation, pushing prices negative with 23 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 81.7 GW against 58.4 GW of consumption, resulting in a net export of 23.3 GW. Wind onshore (31.0 GW) and solar (35.2 GW) together account for 81% of total generation, driving the renewable share to 93.2%. The day-ahead price has turned negative at -2.8 EUR/MWh, reflecting the substantial oversupply from renewables on a windy summer afternoon. Brown coal at 3.6 GW and natural gas at 1.7 GW remain online likely for system inertia and contractual obligations, while hard coal has been nearly fully dispatched down to 0.3 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A green torrent pours from blade and panel, drowning the market beneath a tide of light and wind. The old coal towers stand stubborn as monuments, their steam whispers lost in an ocean of electrons no one will buy.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 43%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
35.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.2 GW
Solar
81.7 GW
Total generation
+23.4 GW
Net export
-2.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 363.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.2 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hills, their surfaces reflecting diffuse light under full overcast; wind onshore 31.0 GW fills the middle distance and left side as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, scattered across agricultural fields of golden wheat and green pasture; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faintly visible grey sea; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and ash-coloured spoil heaps; biomass 3.7 GW sits as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green digester dome and a small exhaust stack emitting thin vapour, placed between the coal plant and the wind turbines; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a small dry cooling unit, tucked behind the biomass facility; hydro 1.3 GW is visible as a small concrete run-of-river weir on a tree-lined river in the foreground; hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers, nearly idle. Time is 14:00 on a summer day: full daylight but entirely overcast with a flat, bright white-grey sky, no visible sun disc yet strong diffuse illumination; temperature is 27°C so vegetation is lush, deep green, with shimmering summer heat haze near the ground; the negative electricity price is conveyed through a calm, expansive, almost eerily peaceful atmosphere with wide open sky. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with layers of depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve and concrete texture. The composition feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork of the industrial landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T12:20 UTC · Download image