Grid Poet — 22 July 2026, 14:00
Diffuse solar and strong wind deliver 89.8% renewables, driving net exports of 15 GW at zero price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a fully overcast summer day, Germany generates 73.4 GW against 58.4 GW of consumption, yielding a net export of approximately 15.0 GW. Despite complete cloud cover and only 27 W/m² of direct radiation, diffuse-light solar production reaches an impressive 34.0 GW — nearly half of total generation — while onshore and offshore wind contribute a combined 27.0 GW. The renewable share stands at 89.8%, pushing the day-ahead price to 0.0 EUR/MWh, a clear signal that downstream markets and neighboring interconnectors are absorbing the oversupply. Thermal baseload from brown coal (4.3 GW), natural gas (2.4 GW), and hard coal (0.7 GW) remains online at reduced levels, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service obligations rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a lid of seamless grey the turbines hum and panels drink the scattered light, pouring more power than any hand can hold. The price falls silent, struck mute by abundance, and the wires sing their excess outward to foreign shores.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 46%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.0 GW
Solar
73.4 GW
Total generation
+14.9 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 27.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.0 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green summer hills, their surfaces reflecting the diffuse white light of a completely overcast sky; wind onshore 22.0 GW fills the mid-ground and left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a row of distant turbines on the far-left horizon above a grey sea inlet; brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the far left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey ceiling; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a woodchip conveyor and a single rectangular stack releasing thin pale exhaust; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer beside the coal complex; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in a forested valley at the right edge; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller brick smokestack with a wisp of dark exhaust near the brown coal towers. The sky is uniformly overcast at 14:00 in full summer daylight — bright but sunless, a flat pearl-white cloud layer from horizon to horizon with no blue patches and no visible sun disc, casting soft shadowless illumination across the entire landscape. Vegetation is lush mid-July green — tall grasses, full-canopy deciduous trees, wildflowers. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive, the air cool for summer. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels, no human figures dominating the scene.
Grid data: 22 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-22T12:20 UTC · Download image