Grid Poet — 20 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 41 GW and wind at 18 GW drive a 10.4 GW net export, collapsing the day-ahead price to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a midsummer afternoon, the German grid is generating 69.8 GW against a consumption of 59.4 GW, producing a net export of 10.4 GW. Solar dominates at 41.1 GW despite complete cloud cover, reflecting the sheer scale of installed PV capacity under diffuse radiation conditions; combined with 17.8 GW of wind (onshore 15.1 GW, offshore 2.7 GW) and 5.0 GW of biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 91.5%. The day-ahead price has fallen to 0.0 EUR/MWh, consistent with the substantial oversupply and negative residual load of −10.5 GW. Brown coal persists at 3.8 GW — likely units running at minimum stable generation to maintain system inertia and contractual obligations — while gas and hard coal are nearly fully curtailed at 1.6 GW and 0.5 GW respectively.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the silent panels drink what light the clouds will spare, and the turbines turn like prayers no one hears. The price of power falls to nothing — abundance so complete it has forgotten its own worth.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
17.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.1 GW
Solar
69.8 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 21.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.1 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting an overcast sky; wind onshore 15.1 GW fills the mid-ground to the right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning moderately in a 17 km/h breeze; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears in the far distance as a line of turbines on a hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the left background as a lignite power station with two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting modest white steam plumes; biomass 3.6 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single smokestack releasing thin vapour, placed behind the solar fields on the left; natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack, barely visible behind the biomass plant, its output minimal; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in low hills on the far left; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single older stack, nearly idle, thin wisp of exhaust. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover — flat, soft, pearl-grey with no direct sunlight, yet the scene is fully lit in bright diffuse midday daylight appropriate for 14:00 in July. The atmosphere is calm, open, and unhurried, reflecting a zero-euro price — no oppressive weight, just quiet abundance. Green summer vegetation, lush meadows and deciduous trees in full leaf at 17°C. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of grey-greens, slate blues, and muted silver, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening toward the horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-20T12:20 UTC · Download image