Grid Poet — 22 July 2026, 12:00
Diffuse solar and strong wind drive 88% renewables with 11.8 GW net export under full overcast.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is operating in significant net export at midday on this overcast July day, with generation exceeding consumption by 11.8 GW. Despite full cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to just 49 W/m², diffuse solar still delivers an impressive 34.8 GW, while combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 24.2 GW on moderate winds of 18.5 km/h. The 88.4% renewable share and 11.8 GW net export have pushed the day-ahead price to a very low 10.4 EUR/MWh, yet brown coal maintains 4.6 GW of baseload operation, likely reflecting contractual inflexibility and minimum stable generation constraints typical for lignite units. Natural gas and hard coal together provide only 3.8 GW, appropriately throttled given the abundant renewable supply.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines churn and panels drink the ghost-light of a hidden sun, pouring power like a river past its banks. Coal smolders stubbornly in the background, an old fire unwilling to bow before the deluge of wind and diffused radiance.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 48%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
24.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.8 GW
Solar
72.5 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
10.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 49.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.8 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their surfaces reflecting the flat grey-white light of a completely overcast sky; wind onshore 19.3 GW fills the middle distance and horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW is glimpsed far in the background as a line of offshore turbines barely visible through haze on a distant sea horizon; brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey cloud ceiling, alongside conveyor belts carrying dark lignite; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a pair of modest wood-chip fired plant buildings with short stacks and thin pale exhaust near the left-centre; natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housing, positioned between the coal plant and the solar fields; hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge; hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a single smaller power station with a tall chimney emitting faint grey smoke behind the lignite complex. Midday full-daylight illumination but entirely diffuse — no sun visible, no shadows, sky a uniform pearl-grey blanket of stratus cloud from horizon to horizon. The landscape is lush midsummer green, temperature mild at 17°C, grass and wildflowers rippling gently. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price — no oppressive darkness, just a tranquil industrial pastoral. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every technology — turbine nacelles, rotor blades, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries — rendered as a masterwork panoramic landscape painting of the modern industrial Energiewende. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-22T10:20 UTC · Download image