Grid Poet — 7 July 2026, 21:00
Strong onshore wind drives 77.7% renewables with 3.5 GW net export, while elevated prices persist despite surplus generation.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a summer evening, wind generation dominates at 40.3 GW combined (35.1 GW onshore, 5.2 GW offshore), driving the renewable share to 77.7%. Solar has effectively ceased at 0.2 GW under fully overcast skies after sunset. Thermal baseload remains significant, with brown coal at 6.8 GW, natural gas at 4.1 GW, and hard coal at 2.3 GW, likely committed on day-ahead schedules and providing inertia. Generation exceeds consumption by 3.5 GW, indicating a net export position, yet the day-ahead price at 118.4 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a period of surplus — suggesting high prices in coupled markets, transmission congestion limiting export flows, or anticipation of tighter conditions in subsequent hours.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades churn the dark July air, their tireless song drowning the coal fires that still glow defiantly beneath a starless vault. The grid brims and spills its bounty outward, yet the market whispers of scarcity yet to come.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 59%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
40.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
59.3 GW
Total generation
+3.5 GW
Net export
118.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
157
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 35.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from centre to far right, their rotors visibly spinning in steady wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant line of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea inlet; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller facility with a single squat smokestack and coal conveyor; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and low exhaust; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with illuminated spillway at the lower left; solar 0.2 GW is absent — no panels visible. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, fully overcast at 98% cloud cover so no stars or moon visible. The only light comes from sodium-vapour streetlights casting amber pools, the orange-lit industrial facilities, glowing control-room windows, and red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles. Summer vegetation — lush dark green deciduous trees, tall grass — is faintly visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a thick humid ceiling pressing down, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of Prussian blue, amber, and charcoal, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and CCGT stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 July 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-07T19:20 UTC · Download image