Grid Poet — 27 July 2026, 14:00
Solar at 37.6 GW and wind at 23.0 GW drive 92% renewable share, pushing prices negative with 12.7 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a summer Sunday, Germany's grid is running at 92.2% renewable penetration, driven by 37.6 GW of solar and 23.0 GW of combined wind generation. Total generation of 71.0 GW against 58.3 GW consumption yields a net export position of 12.7 GW, consistent with the mildly negative day-ahead price of −0.7 EUR/MWh. Despite 77% cloud cover, direct irradiance of 338 W/m² indicates broken cloud conditions allowing substantial solar output, while onshore wind at 20.5 GW is performing well above seasonal average for moderate surface wind speeds, suggesting favorable upper-level conditions. Lignite baseload remains at 3.3 GW with gas and hard coal contributing minimally at 1.7 GW and 0.6 GW respectively, reflecting typical must-run and contractual obligations in a deeply oversupplied market.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun tears through a tattered veil of cloud, and turbines drink the summer wind until the grid brims over like a river in flood. Power flows outward across every border, sold for less than nothing—abundance made so vast it begs the world to take it.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 53%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
23.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.6 GW
Solar
71.0 GW
Total generation
+12.6 GW
Net export
-0.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
77.0% / 338.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.6 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right half and foreground with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces catching broken sunlight through ragged cloud gaps. Wind onshore 20.5 GW occupies the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers dotting green summer hills, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon line above a silver river. Brown coal 3.3 GW is rendered as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers on the far left emitting thin white steam plumes. Biomass 3.7 GW sits as a modest wood-chip power plant with a single low smokestack and timber storage yard beside the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT unit with minimal exhaust, tucked between the biomass plant and wind turbines. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in a wooded valley at the left edge. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small coal plant stack barely visible behind the dam. Time is 14:00 on a summer afternoon: full bright daylight but the sky is mostly overcast with broken stratocumulus clouds at 77% coverage, allowing shafts of direct golden sunlight to pour through dramatic openings, illuminating patches of the solar fields and green rolling landscape. Temperature is a pleasant 21.5°C—lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadows, long summer grass. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious reflecting the negative electricity price—no oppressive haze, just wide pastoral serenity. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into blue-green distance, Romantic drama in the cloudscape, yet every technological element rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, panel junction boxes, cooling tower reinforcement ribs, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 27 July 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-27T12:20 UTC · Download image