Grid Poet — 27 July 2026, 12:00
Solar (38.6 GW) and onshore wind (19.4 GW) drive 13 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At noon on a midsummer Sunday, Germany's grid is deeply oversupplied. Solar dominates at 38.6 GW under mostly clear skies with 326 W/m² direct irradiance, complemented by a strong 19.4 GW onshore wind contribution at 17.1 km/h. Total generation of 73.0 GW against 60.0 GW consumption yields 13.0 GW of net export, consistent with the day-ahead price settling effectively at zero. Brown coal maintains 4.4 GW of baseload, reflecting inflexible must-run commitments, while gas has throttled down to 1.9 GW — both economically marginal at this price level but operationally constrained from further reduction.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden noon floods the land with more power than it can hold, and the turbines spin their silver hymns into a sky that asks for nothing. The grid exhales its surplus across every border, a river of electrons seeking thirsty shores.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 53%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.6 GW
Solar
73.0 GW
Total generation
+13.0 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
26.0% / 326.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground plain covered with row upon row of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting under a high, bright midday sun with only sparse cumulus clouds (26% cover) in a luminous summer sky. Wind onshore 19.4 GW fills the right half and middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on tubular steel towers, rotors spinning briskly in a moderate breeze, scattered across green rolling hills with full midsummer foliage. Wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a thin line of smaller turbines on the far horizon suggesting a distant North Sea coast. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting right in the breeze, beside a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a lignite stockpile. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, nestled just left of centre behind the solar field. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded dome digester and a short smokestack, surrounded by stacked timber and crop silage, positioned in the left-centre middle ground. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam with a modest spillway visible in a valley fold at the far left. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller plant with a rectangular chimney, barely visible behind the cooling towers. The atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous — no oppressive haze — reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Temperature of 20 °C shows in lush, deep-green deciduous trees, wildflower meadows, and warm-toned summer light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a hazy blue-green horizon, warm golden light on foreground textures, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete shell. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 27 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-27T10:20 UTC · Download image