Grid Poet — 11 July 2026, 08:00
Solar leads at 24.7 GW under clear skies, but calm winds force heavy coal and gas dispatch plus 1.4 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 24.7 GW under nearly clear skies, constituting 55% of total output despite low direct irradiance readings at the central Germany reference point—peripheral and southern stations are evidently performing well at this mid-morning hour. Wind contributes a negligible 1.5 GW onshore with offshore at zero, reflecting the very light 5.7 km/h winds across the country. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.3 GW, hard coal at 2.8 GW, and natural gas at 3.6 GW collectively provide 30% of generation, compensating for the wind shortfall and keeping the system nearly in balance. Germany is a net importer of approximately 1.4 GW, and the day-ahead price of 115.4 EUR/MWh reflects the need for thermal dispatch and imports to meet the 46.6 GW demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A white sun pours across ten million panels while beneath the bright facade, coal furnaces breathe their ancient carbon debt into the still July air. The wind has fled, and the grid reaches outward, drawing power from distant borders to fill the silence where turbines should have turned.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 55%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.7 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
1.5 GW
Net import
115.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
5.0% / 89.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
218
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.7 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hillsides, angled south, glinting under bright morning sunshine. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the still air. Hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall brick chimney and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, positioned behind the lignite station. Natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with sleek exhaust stacks and a modest heat recovery steam generator, situated between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a conical fuel silo and a short smokestack emitting thin grey vapour, nestled among trees at the left edge. Hydro 1.2 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam and turbine house beside a calm river flowing through the foreground. Wind onshore 1.5 GW is shown as a handful of distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air. The sky is almost entirely clear with only faint wisps of cirrus, a deep summer blue, but the atmosphere has a slightly heavy, hazy quality suggesting warmth and elevated prices. Morning light from the east casts long shadows westward across the landscape. Lush green deciduous trees and meadow grass indicate mid-July at 15°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 July 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-11T06:20 UTC · Download image