Grid Poet — 7 August 2026, 12:00
Solar at 47.7 GW drives 89% renewable share and 10.4 GW net export at midday in August.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 47.7 GW, accounting for roughly 71% of total output despite 66% cloud cover, indicating that direct radiation of 529 W/m² is still delivering strong yields at solar noon. Wind contributes a modest 7.3 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the light 6.5 km/h surface winds. Lignite (3.9 GW), gas (2.1 GW), and hard coal (1.1 GW) continue running at reduced baseload levels, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service commitments. With generation exceeding consumption by 10.4 GW, Germany is a net exporter of 10.4 GW, pushing the day-ahead price to a low 28.1 EUR/MWh — a typical midday summer pattern where abundant solar compresses prices without driving them negative.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours gold across ten million glass faces, drowning the grid in more light than it can hold. The coal towers exhale softly, stubborn sentinels waiting for dusk to reclaim their purpose.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.7 GW
Solar
67.4 GW
Total generation
+10.4 GW
Net export
28.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
66.0% / 529.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 47.7 GW dominates the scene, filling more than two-thirds of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, angled south, glinting under strong midday light filtered through partial high cloud. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills in the middle distance, blades turning very slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line. Brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with modest white steam plumes rising lazily into still air. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial plant with a short stack and wispy exhaust beside stacked wood-chip piles. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller dark brick powerhouse with a single squat chimney, partially screened by trees. Hydro 1.5 GW is visible as a small weir and powerhouse beside a winding river in the mid-ground. The sky is bright midday summer light with roughly two-thirds covered by white-grey cumulus and altocumulus clouds, with patches of blue and strong direct sun breaking through, casting defined shadows across the panel fields. Temperature is mild — lush green deciduous trees in full August foliage, wildflowers along field margins, warm but not oppressive atmosphere. The low electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open, spacious sky with no heaviness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth recalling Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribbing. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 August 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-07T10:20 UTC · Download image