Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 15:00
Wind and solar together produce 69.6 GW, driving 22.4 GW net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 80.2 GW against 57.8 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 22.4 GW. Wind dominates at 38.3 GW combined (onshore 33.4 GW, offshore 4.9 GW), with solar contributing 31.3 GW despite full cloud cover — diffuse irradiance and high panel deployment still deliver substantial output at midsummer. The renewable share of 93.1% has pushed the day-ahead price to −1.5 EUR/MWh, reflecting the cost of absorbing or exporting excess generation. Brown coal at 3.6 GW continues running at what appears to be a near-minimum technical floor, while gas has throttled back to 1.7 GW, consistent with standard must-run obligations and ancillary service provision.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind howls across a land already drowning in light it cannot use, turbines and panels pouring power into a grid that begs them to stop. Even coal, stubborn and smoldering, refuses to yield its last ember to the torrent of air and sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 39%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
38.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.3 GW
Solar
80.2 GW
Total generation
+22.4 GW
Net export
-1.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.6°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 329.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 33.4 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in steady wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines visible on a hazy horizon line above a river or lake in the mid-background; solar 31.3 GW fills the left-centre foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts and a lignite stockpile at their base; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a modest single-stack CCGT plant with a thin exhaust plume tucked behind the cooling towers; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and low smokestack near the centre-left; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small weir and turbine house on a stream in the lower foreground; hard coal 0.3 GW is barely visible as a single distant smokestack with the faintest wisp of exhaust. The sky is entirely overcast with a flat, bright white-grey cloud layer typical of a warm summer afternoon at 15:00 — full daylight but no direct sun, diffuse luminosity, no shadows. The air feels warm at 27.6°C: lush dark-green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, tall grass, wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open, unhurried, almost drowsy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T13:20 UTC · Download image