Grid Poet — 6 August 2026, 10:00
Solar at 37.4 GW leads an 86% renewable grid, driving 10.5 GW of net exports under clear skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a clear August morning, solar dominates the German grid at 37.4 GW, complemented by 16.6 GW of combined wind generation, driving the renewable share to 86.2%. Total generation of 68.8 GW exceeds consumption of 58.2 GW, resulting in a net export of approximately 10.5 GW. The day-ahead price of 25.1 EUR/MWh reflects the oversupply and high renewable penetration, suppressing thermal dispatch to minimal levels—though brown coal persists at 4.6 GW on baseload commitments and natural gas at 3.5 GW likely for ancillary services. Biomass and hydro contribute a steady 5.3 GW combined, rounding out a well-supplied, export-heavy mid-morning state.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun crowns endless fields of glass and silicon, pouring golden watts into a grid that overflows beyond the nation's borders. The old coal towers exhale their fading breath beneath a sky commandeered by light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.4 GW
Solar
68.8 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
25.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 369.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
95
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.4 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire centre and right foreground with vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels glinting under brilliant midmorning sun, their blue-black surfaces stretching to the horizon across green summer farmland. Wind onshore 12.4 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers standing among the solar fields and on gentle hills in the middle distance, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 4.2 GW is visible as a line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint strip of the North Sea. Brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting white steam plumes, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit mine edge visible. Natural gas 3.5 GW sits just right of the coal plant as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, a modest smokestack with pale exhaust, positioned left of centre behind the solar arrays. Hydro 1.5 GW is represented by a small concrete dam with spillway and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley on the far left background. Hard coal 1.4 GW shows as a single smaller power station with rectangular boiler house and a single slim chimney, barely visible behind the brown coal complex. The sky is completely clear, deep summer blue with no clouds, strong direct sunlight casting crisp shadows from every structure and turbine; the atmosphere is calm and luminous, conveying low electricity prices. Lush green deciduous trees in full August leaf, golden wheat fields between panel rows, temperature suggesting warm comfortable summer. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements—yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribbing is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 August 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-06T08:20 UTC · Download image