Grid Poet — 12 July 2026, 16:00
Solar at nearly 40 GW drives a 10.4 GW net export under clear skies with negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 39.8 GW under clear skies and 629 W/m² direct irradiance, constituting roughly 70% of total output. Combined with 7.9 GW of wind and 4.6 GW from biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 92.5%. Generation exceeds consumption by 10.4 GW, resulting in net exports of that magnitude to neighboring markets and pushing the day-ahead price to -2.7 EUR/MWh. Thermal plants remain at minimal levels — 2.6 GW brown coal likely reflecting must-run constraints, with gas and hard coal together contributing only 1.7 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours gold across a land that drinks more light than it can hold, spilling power over every border. The ancient lignite towers exhale their thin and fading breath, stubborn sentinels in a kingdom no longer theirs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.8 GW
Solar
56.5 GW
Total generation
+10.4 GW
Net export
-2.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 629.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland in the foreground and middle ground, covering roughly 70% of the canvas, their aluminium frames glinting fiercely under a blazing high afternoon sun. Wind onshore 6.4 GW appears as a line of large three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the right-middle distance, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by a small cluster of turbines visible on a hazy horizon line far right. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a timber-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage yard tucked at the left-centre edge. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam against the sky. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is shown as a small dam with cascading water on the far right beside a wooded slope. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a barely visible dark industrial structure partially hidden behind the lignite plant. Time is 4 PM in midsummer: full, intense, almost white-gold daylight from a sun past zenith but still high, zero cloud cover yielding a vast clear blue sky with gentle atmospheric haze near the horizon. Temperature 29.4 °C: lush deep-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, heat shimmer rising from panel surfaces, dry golden grass between panel rows. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price — an open, airy, unburdened sky. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and blade pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid patterns, reinforced concrete cooling tower shells, CCGT gas turbine housings. No text, no labels, no people prominent. A masterwork industrial landscape.
Grid data: 12 July 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-12T14:20 UTC · Download image