Grid Poet — 5 August 2026, 16:00
Solar at 34.5 GW and wind at 17.8 GW drive 92% renewables, pushing 7.1 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 34.5 GW, accounting for more than half of total output despite 56% cloud cover, reflecting Germany's extensive PV fleet under high direct irradiance of 385 W/m². Combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 17.8 GW, forming the second-largest generation block in moderately windy conditions. Total generation of 62.0 GW exceeds consumption of 54.9 GW, yielding a net export of 7.1 GW, which depresses the day-ahead price to 6.8 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation is heavily curtailed, with natural gas at 1.5 GW, brown coal at 2.9 GW, and hard coal at a negligible 0.3 GW — consistent with a 92.3% renewable share and low marginal clearing prices.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours golden rivers across a hundred thousand rooftops, while turbines turn in summer wind like slow applause from the horizon. Coal slumbers in its towers, breathing thin plumes, humbled by the radiant flood.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 56%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
17.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.5 GW
Solar
62.0 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
6.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.7°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
56.0% / 385.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast sunlit plain stretching across more than half the canvas, covered with endless rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, glinting under partly cloudy August afternoon light. Wind onshore 13.7 GW fills the right quarter as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on white lattice towers, rotors spinning at moderate speed in a visible breeze bending the dry summer grass. Wind offshore 4.1 GW appears in the far distance as a line of turbines standing in a hazy sea glimpsed at the horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW is a modest wood-clad biogas plant with a green domed digester and a small exhaust stack, nestled among the solar fields. Brown coal 2.9 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of white steam against the sky. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack producing barely visible heat shimmer. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small weir and penstock at the edge of a winding river crossing the foreground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant industrial stack, dormant, with no visible emissions. The sky is a summer afternoon sky at 16:00 in central Germany: high sun slightly west of zenith, warm direct light casting defined shadows, broken cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky with luminous white tops and grey-blue bases, patches of vivid blue between. Temperature is oppressively hot at 31.7°C: vegetation is parched golden-green, heat haze ripples above the solar panels, the air shimmers. The low electricity price is reflected in a calm, expansive, open atmosphere with generous horizon lines. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading the cooling towers into blue-grey distance, warm golden foreground light on the solar panels, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles and PV cell grids, dramatic yet serene composition reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 August 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-05T14:20 UTC · Download image