Grid Poet — 1 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 43.4 GW drives 90.8% renewable share and 11.0 GW net export at zero price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 43.4 GW, accounting for 74% of total output despite 64% cloud cover, reflecting the scale of installed PV capacity at peak summer irradiance of 544 W/m². Wind contributes a modest 5.0 GW combined, consistent with light winds of 11.1 km/h. Thermal generation remains surprisingly present: brown coal at 3.2 GW and natural gas at 1.4 GW continue dispatching despite a day-ahead price of 0.0 EUR/MWh, likely reflecting inflexible must-run obligations and contractual positions. With consumption at 47.7 GW, the system is exporting a net 11.0 GW, a substantial flow that is clearing excess renewable generation into neighboring markets at effectively zero cost.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the land, drowning the price of power to nothing in its wake. The old coal towers still breathe their ancient steam, stubborn sentinels standing watch over a world that no longer needs their fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.4 GW
Solar
58.7 GW
Total generation
+11.0 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
64.0% / 544.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.4 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland and rooftops through the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames catching bright afternoon light. Brown coal 3.2 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes against a partly cloudy sky. Wind onshore 3.5 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on distant green hills, blades turning slowly. Wind offshore 1.5 GW appears as faint turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. Biomass 3.7 GW is a modest wood-chip power station with a squat smokestack and timber storage yard in the left midground. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack near the coal plant. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a river weir and small dam structure in a valley at center-left. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller industrial stack beside the brown coal complex. The time is 2:00 PM in high summer: full bright daylight, sun high in the south-southwest, strong direct sunlight breaking through scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly two-thirds of the sky, casting moving shadows across the solar fields. The air is warm at 23°C, vegetation is lush deep green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, and summer haze softens the distant horizon. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting a zero electricity price — open luminous sky, no oppression or heaviness. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated color, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel edge, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The composition balances industrial sublime with pastoral serenity. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 1 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-01T12:20 UTC · Download image