Grid Poet — 7 August 2026, 10:00
Solar at 40.1 GW dominates a clear August morning, driving 7 GW net exports alongside persistent coal and gas baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 40.1 GW under clear skies and 374 W/m² direct irradiance, constituting 61% of total output. Combined with 7.4 GW wind and 5.6 GW from biomass and hydro, renewables reach 80.9% of the 65.6 GW generation mix. Germany is a net exporter of approximately 7.0 GW, consistent with a midmorning summer solar peak pushing supply well beyond the 58.6 GW domestic load. Despite the surplus, the day-ahead price remains elevated at 102.2 EUR/MWh, suggesting tight conditions elsewhere in Europe or scheduled maintenance constraining interconnector capacity; notably, 9.3 GW of coal-fired baseload (brown coal 6.6 GW, hard coal 2.7 GW) continues to clear the market alongside 3.2 GW of gas.
Grid poem Claude AI
A white sun crowns a continent of glass, pouring forty billion watts across the plains while ancient lignite towers still exhale their smoky hymns beneath the blinding noon. The grid overflows and sends its golden current westward, yet the market whispers that abundance alone cannot silence the furnaces of coal.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
65.6 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
102.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 374.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from centre to right, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing, cloudless summer sky at 10:00 AM with the sun high in the southeast casting short shadows. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift lazily in the nearly windless air. Hard coal 2.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall brick chimney and conveyor belts of dark fuel beside it, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.2 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender steel exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery steam generator, situated between the coal plants. Wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning in the 1.8 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon where haze meets a strip of the North Sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a domed silo and a short smokestack emitting faint grey exhaust, nestled among green deciduous trees in full August foliage. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading over it in the middle distance along a river cutting through the landscape. The atmosphere is bright but slightly heavy and oppressive — a pale heat haze shimmers above the panels suggesting the elevated market price — with a washed, almost white-blue sky. Vegetation is lush green summer grass and mature linden and oak trees. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 August 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-07T08:20 UTC · Download image