Grid Poet — 25 July 2026, 12:00
Massive midday solar output of 54.2 GW drives 19.6 GW net export and negative prices despite overcast skies.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 54.2 GW despite 95% cloud cover, consistent with the 605 W/m² direct irradiance reading suggesting high-altitude thin cloud or broken overcast allowing substantial diffuse and direct radiation through. Wind contributes a modest 5.6 GW combined onshore and offshore, reflecting near-calm conditions at 2.0 km/h. With total generation at 70.0 GW against consumption of 50.3 GW, the system is in a net export position of approximately 19.6 GW, driving the day-ahead price to -6.0 EUR/MWh — a moderate negative price that signals ample cross-border transmission capacity is being utilized but curtailment pressure remains limited. Thermal baseload from brown coal (2.8 GW), natural gas (1.6 GW), and hard coal (0.8 GW) persists at low levels, likely reflecting must-run obligations and CHP heat contracts rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden flood pours from veiled heavens, drowning the grid in light it cannot drink. The turbines stand still as sentinels of a windless noon, while ancient coal smolders quietly, a stubborn ember refusing to be extinguished by the sun's excess.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 77%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
54.2 GW
Solar
70.0 GW
Total generation
+19.6 GW
Net export
-6.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
95.0% / 605.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 54.2 GW dominates the scene as an immense sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a bright but hazy, overcast white-grey sky with diffuse sunlight penetrating thin high cloud; wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a gentle ridge at right, their blades nearly motionless in the still air; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a handful of distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 3.8 GW is represented by a medium-sized wood-fired power station with a distinctive rectangular stack and steam wisp at centre-left; brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin lazy steam plumes rising into the humid sky; natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.2 GW is shown as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at far right; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the biomass plant. The time is noon in midsummer — full bright daylight but with a milky, washed-out quality from the high overcast, shadows soft and diffuse. The landscape is lush midsummer German countryside, green deciduous trees in full leaf, golden-green meadows, temperature warm at 24°C with haze at the horizon. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open, unburdened sky with no oppressive weight. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth from foreground panels to distant industrial structures, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and reinforced concrete texture. No text, no labels, no people in foreground — a grand industrial pastoral masterwork.
Grid data: 25 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-25T10:20 UTC · Download image