Grid Poet — 23 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 45.7 GW and wind at 14.3 GW drive 17.6 GW of net exports, collapsing prices to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 45.7 GW despite 98% cloud cover, as high diffuse radiation during a July midday still drives substantial PV output, though well below clear-sky potential. Wind contributes 14.3 GW combined onshore and offshore, bringing the renewable share to 87.8%. Total generation of 73.9 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 56.3 GW by 17.6 GW, resulting in net exports of that magnitude to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.0 EUR/MWh, a predictable outcome of the large renewable surplus against baseload-committed brown coal at 6.2 GW, which remains online due to operational inflexibility and minimum-run constraints rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale sun drowns behind a shroud of cloud, yet its scattered light floods the grid with silent, unrelenting power. The turbines hum their restless hymn across the plains, and coal smolders on, stubborn ember in a world that no longer needs its flame.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 62%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.7 GW
Solar
73.9 GW
Total generation
+17.6 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98.0% / 122.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
90
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.7 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white-grey sky; wind onshore 12.1 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles scattered across low green hills in the mid-ground, blades turning in moderate breeze; wind offshore 2.2 GW is visible as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a distant grey sea; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left portion of the scene as a lignite power station with three large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky, adjacent open-pit mine with terraced brown earth partially visible; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall chimney and wood-chip storage silos in the left-centre background; natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and low minimal exhaust plume, tucked behind the biomass facility; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with turbine house on a river winding through the foreground meadow; hard coal 0.9 GW is a modest power station with a single rectangular stack barely visible at the far left edge. Time is 2:00 PM full daylight but heavily overcast — no direct sun, flat diffuse light, no shadows, sky entirely covered by a thick uniform layer of pale grey-white stratus cloud, light is bright but soft and directionless. Summer vegetation: lush deep-green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy, wildflowers in meadow. Temperature is mild, 18°C — no heat haze. Wind animates the grass and turbine blades. Atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, a sense of quiet abundance and overflow. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich visible brushwork, atmospheric depth, luminous treatment of the overcast sky reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's cloud studies, but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and industrial detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 23 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-23T12:20 UTC · Download image