Grid Poet — 18 July 2026, 18:00
Wind dominates at 25.5 GW with strong solar support at 15.9 GW, yielding 90.5% renewables and a 2.1 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a July evening, Germany's grid is running at 90.5% renewable share, driven by a strong combined wind output of 25.5 GW (onshore 19.9 GW, offshore 5.6 GW) complemented by 15.9 GW of solar PV still producing meaningfully despite 70% cloud cover in the late-afternoon sun. Generation exceeds consumption by 2.1 GW, resulting in a modest net export. Thermal generation remains subdued: brown coal contributes 2.7 GW of baseload, natural gas 1.7 GW for balancing, and hard coal a negligible 0.5 GW, while biomass and hydro together provide 5.3 GW. The day-ahead price of 55.9 EUR/MWh is moderate for a summer evening peak hour, reflecting ample renewable supply but still-significant demand of 49.4 GW keeping prices from collapsing.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the July wind into light, while the old coal towers exhale their last warm breath against a copper dusk. The sun, veiled but undefeated, presses its final golden coins through the clouds onto a land that has learned to harvest the sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 31%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
25.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.9 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
55.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.3°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
70.0% / 164.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.9 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of large three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, blades visibly spinning in a brisk 22 km/h breeze; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines standing in a grey-blue sea on the horizon; solar 15.9 GW occupies the centre-right foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the western sky, catching diffused orange-tinged light filtering through broken clouds; biomass 3.9 GW sits in the centre-left as a compact wood-chip power station with a cylindrical silo, conveyor belts, and a modest steam plume; brown coal 2.7 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing grey-white steam plumes drifting eastward, beside a lignite open-pit edge; natural gas 1.7 GW appears in the left-centre as a single modern CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit emitting a thin transparent shimmer; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete dam with cascading water in the far left valley; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single dark boiler house with one short stack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 Berlin time in July — the sun is still above the horizon but low in the west, partly obscured by 70% cloud cover consisting of layered altocumulus and scattered cumulus, casting a warm copper-orange glow along the lower sky while upper portions shift toward muted blue-grey. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadows — at a comfortable 22°C. The atmosphere is moderate and open, neither oppressive nor entirely serene, reflecting a 55.9 EUR/MWh price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.
Grid data: 18 July 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-18T16:20 UTC · Download image