Grid Poet — 13 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 48.5 GW drives 90% renewable share under clear skies, with 6 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 48.5 GW under cloudless skies and 746 W/m² direct irradiance, providing 75.9% of total generation alone. With total generation of 63.9 GW against 57.8 GW consumption, Germany is in a net export position of approximately 6.0 GW. Despite the substantial renewable share of 89.9%, brown coal remains online at 4.2 GW, likely reflecting minimum-run obligations and provision of system inertia, while natural gas at 1.7 GW serves a similar balancing role. The day-ahead price of 38.5 EUR/MWh is moderate for a summer afternoon with this level of solar output, suggesting export corridors are absorbing the surplus without deeply depressing prices.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours fire across a hundred million silicon faces, drowning the grid in light so fierce that ancient coal barely whispers beneath the golden flood. Germany exhales its surplus power outward to its neighbors, a radiant exhalation of midsummer abundance.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 76%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
90%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.5 GW
Solar
63.9 GW
Total generation
+6.0 GW
Net export
38.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 746.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
73
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.5 GW dominates the entire composition as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across sunlit rolling fields and rooftops covering roughly three-quarters of the scene; brown coal 4.2 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the clear sky; biomass 3.5 GW sits in the mid-left as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low exhaust stack; wind onshore 3.6 GW occupies the right-centre as a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning very slowly in light breeze; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit near centre-right; hydro 1.2 GW is rendered as a stone-and-concrete weir with cascading water at the far right edge; wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the distant horizon line above a faint blue river or lake; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small smokestack with a wisp of grey exhaust at the far left. Time is 14:00 in midsummer: the sun is high and blazing in a completely cloudless, pale-blue sky, casting short harsh shadows. Temperature is 30°C — the landscape is lush deep-green with mature summer foliage, wildflowers, golden wheat fields shimmering in heat haze. The atmosphere is calm and open, with excellent visibility, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, luminous atmospheric depth, visible confident brushwork — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor assemblies with nacelles, aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell grids, hyperbolic reinforced-concrete cooling towers, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat exchangers. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-13T12:20 UTC · Download image