Grid Poet — 13 August 2026, 16:00
Solar at 42.9 GW dominates under clear 31.8 °C skies, with brown coal providing baseload and 4.9 GW net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 42.9 GW under cloudless skies and 601 W/m² direct irradiance, representing 72.6% of total generation alone and driving the renewable share to 87.3%. Net exports stand at 4.9 GW, with generation exceeding domestic consumption of 54.2 GW. Despite the significant oversupply and high renewable penetration, the day-ahead price remains elevated at 111.5 EUR/MWh, likely reflecting sustained cooling demand from 31.8 °C temperatures across central Europe and limited cross-border transmission capacity constraining further export. Brown coal continues baseload contribution at 4.7 GW alongside 1.7 GW of natural gas, consistent with standard summer thermal dispatch to maintain system inertia and provide evening ramp coverage as solar declines.
Grid poem Claude AI
A merciless sun pours forty-two thousand megawatts upon the silicon fields, the land made furnace and generator both. Beneath the blazing firmament the old coal towers breathe their slow grey breath, sentinels who know the night will come.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 73%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
87%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.9 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
111.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 601.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
93
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.9 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling agricultural fields, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting harshly under an oppressive, white-hot afternoon sun. Brown coal 4.7 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy grey-white steam plumes rising into the still air. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground complex of wood-clad biomass CHP plants with modest chimneys emitting pale wisps. Wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a small group of modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the feeble 9 km/h breeze. Natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack near the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.2 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir visible along a low, sun-bleached river in the middle distance. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular stack beside the cooling towers. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on a hazy far-northern horizon. Time is 4 PM in high summer: the sun blazes from the west-southwest, casting short-to-medium shadows, the sky is entirely cloudless but has an oppressive, heavy, almost brassy quality suggesting extreme heat and high electricity prices. Vegetation is parched late-summer green-gold, heat shimmer distorts the horizon. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. The mood is grand, sweltering, industrially sublime. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 August 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-13T14:20 UTC · Download image