Grid Poet — 10 August 2026, 16:00
Solar at 32.6 GW and wind at 22.0 GW drive 91% renewables, pushing 8.3 GW of net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a hot August afternoon, German renewables supply 91.1% of generation, with solar contributing 32.6 GW and combined wind delivering 22.0 GW as the dominant sources. Total generation of 65.1 GW exceeds consumption of 56.9 GW, resulting in a net export position of approximately 8.3 GW. Despite the strong renewable share and export conditions, the day-ahead price holds at a moderate 48.9 EUR/MWh, likely supported by high cooling-driven demand across Central Europe and robust cross-border demand for German exports. Brown coal maintains 3.3 GW of baseload output, with natural gas at 2.1 GW providing marginal flexibility — both consistent with standard must-run and reserve commitments rather than any supply concern.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun commands a kingdom of glass and silicon, pouring golden current through a grid that overflows its borders. Wind joins the chorus from field and sea, while ancient lignite smolders quietly beneath the throne it once held alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 50%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
22.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.6 GW
Solar
65.1 GW
Total generation
+8.3 GW
Net export
48.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.2°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
73.0% / 244.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, angled south, catching diffused but strong afternoon light through partial cloud. Wind onshore 19.2 GW fills the right half and recedes into the distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, blades visibly turning in moderate wind across rolling green summer hills. Wind offshore 2.8 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a distant grey-blue sea sliver. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting lazy white steam plumes. Biomass 3.5 GW sits center-left as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single exhaust stack with thin vapour. Natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions, positioned just left of center. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water cascading, nestled in a green valley in the far left middle distance. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible single small smokestack behind the brown coal towers. The sky is 73% cloud-covered — large cumulus and stratocumulus masses drifting across an otherwise bright summer sky, with patches of vivid blue and strong diffused sunlight at 16:00 creating warm golden-white illumination across the landscape. The temperature is 30°C: lush deep-green foliage on deciduous trees, heat shimmer rising from panel surfaces, dry golden grass at field edges. The atmosphere feels warm and moderately heavy but not oppressive, reflecting a 48.9 EUR/MWh price — hazy but luminous. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy in all technology depictions. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 August 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-10T14:20 UTC · Download image