Grid Poet — 5 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 46.5 GW and wind at 16.5 GW drive 93.5% renewables, pushing prices to zero with 16.9 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 46.5 GW, consistent with a midsummer early afternoon under partially cloudy skies and strong direct irradiance of 497 W/m². Combined wind output of 16.5 GW provides substantial supplementary generation, yielding a renewable share of 93.5%. Total generation of 71.6 GW against consumption of 54.7 GW produces a net export position of 16.9 GW, which has pushed the day-ahead price to −0.1 EUR/MWh — effectively zero, reflecting ample supply across the interconnected European market. Thermal baseload from brown coal (2.8 GW) and gas (1.4 GW) persists at minimum stable generation levels, likely constrained by must-run obligations or ancillary service commitments.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours gold across a land that cannot drink it all, and turbines hum a surplus hymn while cooling towers stand like sentinels of a fading age. Even the market price bows to nothing, a whispered zero at the altar of light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 65%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 0%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
94%
Renewable share
16.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.5 GW
Solar
71.6 GW
Total generation
+16.8 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
52.0% / 497.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 46.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a high summer sun filtered through broken cumulus clouds at 52% cover, casting dappled shadows across the landscape. Wind onshore 12.6 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across rolling green hills in the centre-right, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.9 GW is visible in the far background as a cluster of turbines standing in a hazy blue sea on the distant horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW sits as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack and steam wisps in the middle distance. Brown coal 2.8 GW occupies a small area at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the warm air. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a barely visible small stack behind the gas plant. Hydro 0.3 GW is suggested by a small river weir in the foreground. The lighting is full bright midsummer afternoon at 14:00 in central Germany — high sun slightly west of zenith, warm golden-white light, harsh shadows softened by partial cloud cover. The temperature is sweltering at 31°C; the vegetation is lush deep green with dry golden edges on grasses suggesting summer heat. The atmosphere is calm and open — clear, airy, no oppression — reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Style: 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 colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blues at the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing. The composition conveys the sheer scale of solar power dwarfing the remnant fossil infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-05T12:20 UTC · Download image