Grid Poet — 11 August 2026, 12:00
Record solar at 53.4 GW drives renewables to 91%, zeroing the day-ahead price with 17.1 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 53.4 GW under largely clear skies with 509 W/m² direct radiation, comprising over 72% of total generation. Combined with 8.9 GW of wind and 5.0 GW of hydro and biomass, renewables reach 90.8% of the 74.0 GW generation mix. With consumption at 56.9 GW, the system is exporting a net 17.1 GW, and the day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.0 EUR/MWh — a textbook midday solar surplus scenario for a summer weekday. Brown coal continues baseloading at 4.2 GW alongside 1.9 GW of gas and 0.7 GW of hard coal, reflecting contractual and technical minimum-run constraints rather than economic dispatch signals.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the land, drowning prices to silence while turbines stand half-still in the summer haze. The old coal towers breathe their stubborn plumes into a sky that no longer needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 72%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
8.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
53.4 GW
Solar
74.0 GW
Total generation
+17.1 GW
Net export
0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
18.0% / 509.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 53.4 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast, sun-drenched plain covered with thousands of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, their blue-black surfaces glinting under intense midday summer sunlight. Brown coal 4.2 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the bright sky. Biomass 3.7 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a single square smokestack and timber storage yard. Natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a slender steel exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, tucked between the coal and the solar field. Wind onshore 7.1 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle green hills in the middle distance, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a few turbines visible on the far horizon over a narrow strip of Baltic Sea. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the far right. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single small conventional power station with one square chimney barely visible behind the solar arrays. The sky is mostly clear — perhaps 18% wispy cirrus clouds — with brilliant direct sunlight casting sharp shadows across the panels. Summer vegetation is lush: deep green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers along field edges. Temperature feels pleasant at 20°C. The atmosphere is calm, open, and weightless, reflecting a zero-price market. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with a luminous horizon — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower cross-bracing, panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic profiles. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 August 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-11T10:20 UTC · Download image