Grid Poet — 20 July 2026, 16:00
Overcast solar (33 GW) and strong wind (19.4 GW) drive 90% renewable share, pushing 5.1 GW net exports at depressed prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a heavily overcast summer afternoon, German renewables supply 90.2% of generation, dominated by 33.0 GW of solar despite near-total cloud cover—diffuse irradiance from long July daylight hours still drives substantial PV output. Wind contributes a combined 19.4 GW onshore and offshore, providing a strong secondary pillar. With total generation at 63.6 GW against 58.5 GW consumption, the system is in net export of approximately 5.1 GW, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 15.1 EUR/MWh. Brown coal persists at 4.2 GW as baseload commitment while gas and hard coal run at minimal must-run levels; these thermal units will likely face further economic pressure to ramp down given the prevailing price environment.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sky of iron wool the silent panels drink what light remains, while turbines carve slow hymns into the grey. The old coal towers breathe their stubborn steam, relics murmuring at the edge of a world that no longer needs their fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 52%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
90%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.0 GW
Solar
63.6 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
15.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98.0% / 29.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.0 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland under a completely overcast, flat white-grey sky with no visible sun—diffuse daylight only, consistent with 16:00 summer afternoon and 98% cloud cover. Wind onshore 16.4 GW fills the middle distance and right side as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, spread across green summer hillsides. Wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting the North Sea coast. Brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting in the breeze, connected to a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers rendered with engineering precision. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and single moderate smokestack, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT unit with a slim exhaust plume, tucked beside the biomass facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley at far left. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a small conventional boiler house with a thin wisp of exhaust, barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is uniformly heavy overcast, pearly grey-white, no sun disc visible, but full diffuse summer daylight illuminates the entire landscape evenly—no shadows, soft ambient light. The air feels calm and mild at 17°C; lush green summer vegetation, meadow grasses, and wildflowers fill gaps between panels and turbine bases. The low electricity price is conveyed through the open, expansive, tranquil composition with generous negative space in the sky. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into haze—yet with meticulous technical accuracy on every nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 July 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-20T14:20 UTC · Download image