Grid Poet — 10 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 42.9 GW and wind at 18.7 GW drive 14.1 GW net exports under cloudless skies, collapsing prices to 4.3 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates this midsummer afternoon at 42.9 GW, representing 59% of total generation, supported by 18.7 GW of combined wind output and steady baseload contributions from biomass (3.5 GW) and brown coal (3.2 GW). Total generation of 72.2 GW against 58.1 GW consumption yields a net export position of 14.1 GW, consistent with a cloudless August afternoon across central Europe. The day-ahead price of 4.3 EUR/MWh reflects the substantial oversupply, incentivizing flexible loads and storage uptake while limiting dispatch economics for remaining thermal units. Gas generation has been backed down to 2.1 GW and hard coal to a near-minimum 0.3 GW, though brown coal holds at 3.2 GW, likely reflecting contractual or technical must-run constraints at lignite plants.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has seized the grid in its relentless fist, flooding copper veins with light until the price of power falls to almost nothing. Turbines spin their lazy sermon on the August wind while cooling towers exhale ghost-breath into a sky that needs no more.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
18.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.9 GW
Solar
72.2 GW
Total generation
+14.2 GW
Net export
4.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 617.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.9 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly 60% of the scene as a vast undulating sea of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across sun-scorched farmland in the foreground and middle ground, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under fierce direct sunlight. Wind onshore 16.3 GW spans the right third of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on white lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in a steady breeze, receding toward the horizon in atmospheric perspective. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a faint line of smaller turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon at the far right. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the left background as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes that drift right in the wind. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip-fired plant with a single modest smokestack and timber storage yard at the left middle ground. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a small CCGT unit with a sleek exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete weir and penstock visible along a glinting river that cuts through the landscape. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a barely visible dark industrial silhouette at the far left edge. The sky is completely cloudless, a blazing pale blue washed with white heat haze near the horizon, the sun high and intense at early-to-mid afternoon angle from the south, casting short sharp shadows. Vegetation is late-summer central German landscape: golden-dry grasses, deep green deciduous trees with full heavy canopies, some showing early heat stress with slightly curled leaves. The air shimmers with 31.5°C heat. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — an open, almost drowsy quality to the light. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, golden-amber and cerulean color harmonies, but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and industrial detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-10T12:20 UTC · Download image