Grid Poet — 28 July 2026, 12:00
Solar at 51.6 GW drives 13.4 GW net export under clear skies, pushing day-ahead prices to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates the German grid at noon with 51.6 GW, accounting for 72.7% of total generation under completely clear skies and 625 W/m² direct irradiance. Total generation of 71.0 GW against 57.6 GW consumption yields a net export position of 13.4 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. Wind contributes a modest 8.3 GW combined as surface winds remain light at 4 km/h. Brown coal persists at 4.1 GW alongside 1.5 GW of gas and 0.6 GW of hard coal — these baseload and must-run units are operating near technical minimums, reflecting limited downward flexibility despite the strong renewable surplus and negligible market price.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours gold across ten million panels, flooding the grid until the wires themselves seem to overflow. Below, the old coal towers exhale their last stubborn breath, dwarfed by the silent, radiant tide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 73%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.6 GW
Solar
71.0 GW
Total generation
+13.5 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 625.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain covered in thousands of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching from the foreground deep into the middle distance, glinting under brilliant midday sun, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Wind onshore 6.3 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a gentle ridge at the right, their blades barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 2.0 GW is visible as a distant line of turbines on the hazy horizon where land meets a sliver of sea. Brown coal 4.1 GW stands at the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a compact wood-fired plant with a low rectangular boiler building and a modest stack emitting pale exhaust, situated behind the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a single compact CCGT unit with a tall slender exhaust stack and small heat-recovery steam generator, nestled beside the coal plant. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley to the right. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single smaller smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal complex. The sky is completely cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with the sun at its zenith casting short, crisp shadows. The atmosphere is calm, open, luminous — no oppressive haze, reflecting the zero price. Summer vegetation: lush green meadows, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field edges. Temperature of 21.6 °C conveyed through comfortable, warm-toned light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminosity — yet every technological element rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid lines, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust diffusers. The painting balances sublime natural beauty with precise industrial realism. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 July 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-28T10:20 UTC · Download image