Grid Poet — 19 July 2026, 10:00
Solar (27.6 GW) and wind (16.5 GW) dominate, pushing net exports to 4.5 GW and prices to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a summer Sunday morning, the German grid is running at 92.4% renewable share, driven primarily by 27.6 GW of solar and 16.5 GW of combined wind generation. Total generation of 53.5 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 49.0 GW, resulting in a net export of 4.5 GW—reflected clearly in the day-ahead price collapsing to 0.0 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation is minimal: brown coal persists at 2.2 GW likely on must-run constraints, while gas contributes just 1.4 GW for balancing purposes, and hard coal is nearly negligible at 0.5 GW. Biomass at 4.0 GW and hydro at 1.3 GW provide steady baseload, rounding out a textbook midsummer renewable oversupply scenario.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours molten gold across a land that barely needs the fire of coal, while turbines hum a hymn of surplus power spilling beyond the borders. At zero price the grid exhales, a nation's appetite already sated by wind and light alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
16.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.6 GW
Solar
53.5 GW
Total generation
+4.5 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
63.0% / 191.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.6 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels in precise aluminium frames stretch across the entire right half and centre of the composition, angled south, glinting under partly cloudy midmorning daylight. Wind onshore 11.6 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on rolling green hills behind the solar fields, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 4.9 GW is visible in the far distance as a row of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line above a sliver of the North Sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-chip power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 2.2 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint steam plumes rising into the sky, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a small compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal flue gas, nestled beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at lower left. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single modest smokestack barely visible behind the lignite towers. The sky is 63% covered with broken cumulus clouds, allowing strong but intermittent direct sunlight to illuminate the panels—shafts of light break through cloud gaps. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the zero electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green: tall grass, wildflowers, deciduous trees in full leaf, temperature around 17°C suggesting a fresh but pleasant morning. The lighting is full mid-morning daylight from the east-southeast, casting long but shortening shadows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colours, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 19 July 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-19T08:20 UTC · Download image