Grid Poet — 18 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 39.8 GW and wind at 16.0 GW drive 93% renewable share, pushing prices negative amid 16.6 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a midsummer afternoon, the German grid is generating 65.3 GW against a consumption of 48.7 GW, yielding a net export position of 16.6 GW. Solar dominates at 39.8 GW despite 85% cloud cover, indicating that diffuse and intermittent direct irradiance (455 W/m²) are still producing substantial output from the installed PV fleet. Combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 16.0 GW, supported by moderate winds. The day-ahead price has turned slightly negative at −2.0 EUR/MWh, consistent with the large renewable surplus; thermal generation remains at modest baseload levels, with brown coal at 2.6 GW and gas and hard coal together at 1.8 GW, likely reflecting must-run obligations and reserve requirements.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the lattice fields, drowning the market price beneath waves of silent abundance. The old coal towers exhale their last thin breath, spectators to a sky that no longer needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.8 GW
Solar
65.3 GW
Total generation
+16.6 GW
Net export
-2.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
85.0% / 455.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
48
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the canvas from the centre to the right horizon, their aluminium frames catching diffused midday light under a high overcast sky. Wind onshore 13.3 GW appears as dense ranks of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines across the middle distance, rotors turning steadily in moderate breeze, with wind offshore 2.7 GW suggested by a thin line of turbines on the far hazy horizon. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam into the humid summer air. Biomass 3.7 GW is depicted as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a low exhaust stack and timber storage yard in the left middle ground. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT facility behind the biomass plant, its exhaust barely visible. Hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the foreground. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single distant smokestack with a faint trail. The sky is 85% covered in high stratocumulus, bright and luminous white-grey, with patches of blue and strong diffused sunlight casting soft shadows—full midday summer daylight at 14:00. Lush green summer vegetation, wildflowers along field margins, warm 24°C atmosphere with slight haze. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminosity—with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust details. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-18T12:20 UTC · Download image