Grid Poet — 22 July 2026, 16:00
Strong wind and diffuse solar drive 89% renewables, creating 12.5 GW net exports under full overcast.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a fully overcast summer afternoon, the German grid is generating 70.5 GW against 58.0 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 12.5 GW. Wind is the dominant source at 30.6 GW combined (onshore 25.4, offshore 5.2), while solar contributes 27.4 GW despite complete cloud cover—diffuse irradiance at this time of year remains substantial even with only 13 W/m² direct radiation. Renewables account for 89.3% of generation, pushing the day-ahead price down to 9.2 EUR/MWh, a level that reflects the oversupply and discourages further thermal dispatch. Brown coal persists at 4.2 GW on must-run and contractual obligations, with natural gas at 2.6 GW likely providing residual balancing services; hard coal is nearly negligible at 0.7 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale-lit armada of blades and silicon floods the grid with more than the nation can drink, spilling power across every border. Beneath a featureless pewter sky, the old lignite towers exhale their last stubborn breath into a world that barely needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 39%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
30.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
70.5 GW
Total generation
+12.5 GW
Net export
9.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 13.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, rotors spinning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant line of turbines visible on the grey horizon where land meets a sliver of North Sea. Solar 27.4 GW fills the middle ground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels blanketing gentle farmland, their surfaces reflecting the flat, diffuse white light of total overcast—no direct sun, no shadows. Brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Biomass 3.7 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as a mid-sized facility with cylindrical digesters and a modest chimney with thin exhaust. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall, a faint heat shimmer above. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a river in the valley floor. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a small single-stack plant partly obscured behind trees at the far left edge. The sky is entirely covered by a uniform layer of grey-white stratus cloud at 16:00 full summer daylight—bright but completely diffuse, no blue sky visible, no sun disc, a luminous pearl-grey ceiling. Temperature 18°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, meadow grasses, temperate and mild. Low electricity price conveyed through a calm, open, spacious composition with generous sky. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity—rich colour palette of greens, greys, and muted silvers, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 22 July 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-22T14:20 UTC · Download image