Grid Poet — 21 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 45.8 GW overwhelms midday demand, driving net exports of 7.5 GW and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates the generation stack at 45.8 GW, contributing 70% of total output during peak irradiance under nearly cloudless skies. With total generation at 65.4 GW against 57.8 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 7.5 GW. The day-ahead price of 1.0 EUR/MWh reflects the substantial oversupply from near-zero marginal cost renewables, compressing thermal dispatch to minimum stable generation levels. Brown coal at 4.1 GW remains online as baseload must-run capacity, while gas has retreated to 1.7 GW, consistent with standard mid-summer merit-order behavior at this renewable share of 90.3%.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun crowns the Fatherland in rivers of photovoltaic gold, flooding the wires until the price of power dissolves to almost nothing. Beneath that radiant sovereignty, the old coal towers exhale their thin grey breath—stubborn ghosts refusing to leave a stage no longer theirs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
8.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.8 GW
Solar
65.4 GW
Total generation
+7.5 GW
Net export
1.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
5.0% / 574.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.8 GW dominates the entire centre and right of the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer fields, their aluminium frames glinting under intense direct sunlight; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes against the blue sky; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-ground timber-clad combined heat-and-power plant with a modest chimney and stacked woodchip piles; natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT unit beside the biomass plant with a faint heat shimmer at its exhaust; wind onshore 7.5 GW rises behind the solar fields as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-free tubular towers, blades turning lazily in the light breeze; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the hazy horizon line; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a glittering stream in the foreground; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small industrial stack barely visible behind the cooling towers. Time is 14:00 high summer: the sun is high and blazing, sky nearly cloudless with only the faintest wisp of cirrus, light is intense and warm, shadows are short. Temperature is mild at 21 °C, vegetation is lush midsummer green—wildflowers, ripe grasses, leafy deciduous trees. The low electricity price is conveyed by a vast, calm, open sky with serene luminosity. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic depth from foreground stream through midground solar fields to distant cooling towers and turbines. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 21 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-21T12:21 UTC · Download image