Grid Poet — 3 August 2026, 08:00
Solar leads at 20.8 GW with coal providing 12.7 GW as tight supply drives 150 EUR/MWh prices and 4.6 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 08:00 on a summer Monday morning, German renewables supply 69.2% of generation, led by 20.8 GW of solar output despite 55% cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to just 61 W/m². Wind contributes 11.4 GW combined onshore and offshore, while the thermal fleet remains substantial: brown coal at 8.5 GW, hard coal at 4.2 GW, and natural gas at 4.0 GW collectively provide 16.7 GW of baseload and mid-merit generation. Domestic generation of 54.3 GW falls short of 58.9 GW consumption, requiring approximately 4.6 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 150 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the tight supply-demand balance and the need for imports during a period when thermal units are already dispatched at significant levels.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun climbs through a veil of cloud, painting silicon fields in diffused gold, while coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the warming August air. The grid stretches taut as a bowstring, drawing power from beyond the borders to feed the morning's hunger.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 38%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
11.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.8 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
4.6 GW
Net import
150.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
55.0% / 61.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
223
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 20.8 GW dominates the right half as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland under partially cloudy skies; brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the hazy air; hard coal 4.2 GW appears as a dark industrial complex with tall chimneys and conveyor belts in the left midground; natural gas 4.0 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; wind onshore 8.6 GW fills the centre and right background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across green hilltops, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-clad power plant with a short stack near the centre; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at centre-right. The lighting is full summer morning daylight at 08:00, sun at a moderate eastern angle casting long shadows, with 55% cloud cover creating a mix of bright patches and soft diffused light. The sky feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — warm humid atmosphere with towering cumulus beginning to build. Green summer vegetation, wildflowers in meadows, temperature around 16°C with light mist in the valleys. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon, dramatic interplay of industrial infrastructure and pastoral landscape. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, steam plume fluid dynamics. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 August 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-03T06:20 UTC · Download image