Grid Poet — 6 August 2026, 16:00
Solar (33.2 GW) and wind (24.9 GW) drive 92.5% renewables, collapsing prices to zero amid 13.7 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a summer Thursday, Germany's grid is generating 68.3 GW against 54.6 GW of consumption, yielding a net export of 13.7 GW to neighboring systems. Renewables account for 92.5% of generation, led by solar at 33.2 GW despite fully overcast skies — a testament to diffuse-radiation harvest across Germany's large installed PV base — and a combined 24.9 GW of wind. Thermal generation is largely suppressed: gas at 1.9 GW and brown coal at 2.6 GW are running near technical minimums, while hard coal sits at just 0.6 GW. The day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.0 EUR/MWh, consistent with the substantial oversupply and reflecting the challenge of absorbing or exporting this volume during a period when neighboring markets are also well-supplied.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden August ceiling the turbines hum their tireless hymn, and panels drink the hidden sun until the grid can hold no more. The price falls silent as a stone dropped into still, forgetting water.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 49%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
24.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.2 GW
Solar
68.3 GW
Total generation
+13.7 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 44.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.2 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat white overcast sky; wind onshore 20.6 GW fills the right half and background as dense ranks of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in a steady breeze; wind offshore 4.3 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a faintly visible grey sea; biomass 3.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and a single low stack emitting thin pale smoke, placed in the left-middle ground; brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with modest steam plumes rising into the grey ceiling; natural gas 1.9 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam with white spillway water in the left foreground; hard coal 0.6 GW is a single distant stack barely visible behind the biomass plant, emitting a wisp of darker smoke. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a uniform warm grey with no blue breaks, but full diffuse summer daylight appropriate for 16:00 in August — bright yet shadowless. Temperature is 24.7°C, so vegetation is lush midsummer green: tall grasses, mature wheat fields bordering the solar arrays, full-canopy deciduous trees. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, just a serene, still, luminous overcast. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of sage greens, warm greys, silvered panel surfaces, and muted industrial ochres — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into soft grey, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 August 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-06T14:20 UTC · Download image