Grid Poet — 12 August 2026, 12:00
Solar at 57.2 GW drives 89% renewable share and 13.3 GW net export at rock-bottom prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 57.2 GW despite 80% cloud cover, reflecting the substantial installed PV capacity across Germany and the still-significant direct radiation of 583 W/m² reaching panels at midday. Brown coal continues baseload operation at 5.0 GW, with biomass contributing 3.7 GW and natural gas at 1.9 GW, indicating that conventional plants have curtailed but not fully withdrawn. The residual load of -13.3 GW translates to a net export of approximately 13.3 GW, flowing to neighboring markets and consistent with the low day-ahead price of 14.80 EUR/MWh. Wind generation is negligible at a combined 1.3 GW onshore and offshore, reflecting the calm 5.2 km/h surface winds typical of a Central European summer high-pressure pattern.
Grid poem Claude AI
A billion glass faces drink the veiled sun while smokestacks murmur their fossil requiem, and the grid overflows like a river past its banks. Power spills across every border, priced at nearly nothing, a kingdom drowning in its own light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 80%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
57.2 GW
Solar
71.2 GW
Total generation
+13.3 GW
Net export
14.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
80.0% / 583.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
79
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 57.2 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling fields and rooftops, covering roughly 80% of the composition; brown coal 5.0 GW appears in the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising against the sky; biomass 3.7 GW sits as a medium-scale wood-chip power plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard in the left-center middle ground; natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, positioned center-left; wind onshore 1.2 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, blades barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a concrete run-of-river weir with low white water visible in a river cutting through the foreground; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller smokestack beside the brown coal complex. Full midday daylight but an overcast high haze softens the sun, creating a bright diffuse luminosity with occasional shafts of direct sunlight breaking through gaps in the 80% cloud cover, casting warm patches across the endless solar arrays. Summer vegetation is lush — tall green grass, leafy deciduous trees, wildflowers along field margins — at 23.7°C the air feels warm and still with no wind motion in branches or flags. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, the sky a soft silver-white canopy with layers of cumulus, conveying a low-price tranquility. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered color, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distances — yet every turbine nacelle, every aluminium PV frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 August 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-12T10:20 UTC · Download image