Grid Poet — 19 July 2026, 12:00
Solar at 36.7 GW and wind at 13.8 GW drive 10.8 GW net export under overcast July skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 36.7 GW despite 92% cloud cover, indicating the diffuse irradiance component remains substantial at midday in July; direct normal irradiance of 153 W/m² confirms predominantly overcast skies with intermittent breaks. Wind contributes a combined 13.8 GW onshore and offshore, supporting the 93% renewable share. Germany is a net exporter of approximately 10.8 GW, which is consistent with the slightly negative day-ahead price of -0.7 EUR/MWh — a typical midday pattern in high-solar summer weeks where neighboring markets absorb excess generation. Thermal baseload from lignite (2.3 GW) and gas (1.4 GW) remains online at minimum stable generation levels, likely reflecting must-run obligations and balancing requirements rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver shroud the panels drink what light the clouds permit, and the grid overflows like a summer river breaching its banks. The turbines hum a restless hymn across the lowlands, pushing power past every border into foreign hands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
13.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.7 GW
Solar
59.9 GW
Total generation
+10.7 GW
Net export
-0.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
92.0% / 153.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from the foreground to the mid-ground, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat silvery-white overcast sky. Wind onshore 11.4 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-base towers arrayed along ridgelines in the upper-right third, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon line at far right. Biomass 3.8 GW occupies a modest compound at mid-left — a biogas facility with rounded green digesters and a small exhaust stack emitting thin white vapor. Brown coal 2.3 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers rising above a lignite plant, lazy plumes of white steam drifting eastward. Natural gas 1.4 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall tucked between the cooling towers and the solar field. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a gentle river in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible older stack behind the gas plant, nearly idle with only the faintest wisp. The sky is fully overcast at 92% cloud cover — a bright but diffuse July midday, no direct sun disk visible, luminous pearl-grey clouds with subtle warm undertones, the light even and shadowless. The air feels calm and mild at 18.5°C; lush midsummer vegetation — deep green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers along field edges. The mood is tranquil and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with receding blue-grey distances — yet every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV panel junction boxes, cooling tower reinforced-concrete ribbing, CCGT air intakes. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 19 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-19T10:20 UTC · Download image