Grid Poet — 14 July 2026, 12:00
Solar at 45.5 GW drives 81.5% renewable share at midday, with 10.5 GW net export and persistent coal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 45.5 GW, contributing nearly two-thirds of total generation despite 65% cloud cover, reflecting the large installed PV base and strong direct irradiation of 514 W/m² on this mid-July midday. Total generation of 70.1 GW exceeds consumption of 59.6 GW, yielding a net export of 10.5 GW, likely flowing to neighboring markets. Despite the high renewable share of 81.5%, brown coal remains at 6.3 GW and hard coal at 3.8 GW, indicating baseload thermal units running through their must-run constraints or hedged positions. The day-ahead price of 64 EUR/MWh is moderate for a summer weekday noon, suggesting export demand and thermal marginal costs are setting the clearing price rather than renewables alone.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours through broken clouds, flooding silicon fields with molten gold while ancient lignite towers exhale their stubborn hymns beneath. The grid overflows like a summer river swollen past its banks, sending its electric current surging toward distant shores.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 65%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.5 GW
Solar
70.1 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
64.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
65.0% / 514.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
135
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.5 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the canvas from center to right, their blue-black surfaces glinting under broken midday summer light. Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, adjacent to a conveyor belt feeding raw lignite. Hard coal 3.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with tall chimneys and a dark coal stockyard just to the right of the lignite complex. Wind onshore 5.7 GW is rendered as a modest line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, their blades turning slowly in light wind. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a compact wood-chip plant with a squat smokestack and timber storage yard nestled among green deciduous trees in mid-summer foliage. Natural gas 2.9 GW is a single modern CCGT unit with a sleek exhaust stack releasing a thin transparent heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and solar fields. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley in the far background. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as tiny turbines on the distant northern horizon line. The sky is partly cloudy at 65% cover — large cumulus clouds drifting across a warm July sky, with strong direct sunlight breaking through gaps, casting dramatic light and shadow patterns across the landscape. Temperature is warm, 24.6°C, with lush green summer vegetation, wildflowers, and golden wheat fields between the solar arrays. The atmosphere is moderate — neither oppressive nor perfectly clear, reflecting a 64 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated color, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower ribbing, dramatic chiaroscuro from the broken cloud light. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-14T10:20 UTC · Download image