Grid Poet — 14 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 55.7 GW drives 89.8 % renewables, creating 17 GW net export under extreme summer heat.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a cloudless August afternoon with 34 °C and 687 W/m² direct irradiance, solar generation dominates the German grid at 55.7 GW, contributing 79.1 % of total output alone. Wind is negligible at 2.8 GW combined, consistent with the light 8.8 km/h surface winds typical of Central European summer high-pressure conditions. Total generation of 70.4 GW against 53.4 GW consumption yields a net export position of approximately 17.0 GW, depressing the day-ahead price to 17.3 EUR/MWh. Thermal baseload remains online with 4.0 GW brown coal and 2.0 GW gas, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service requirements rather than economic dispatch at this price level.
Grid poem Claude AI
A merciless sun pours fifty-five golden gigawatts across silicon fields, drowning the grid in light until power spills beyond the borders like a river breaching its banks. The old coal towers stand idling in the shimmer, stubborn sentinels of inertia in a kingdom seized by fire from above.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 79%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
2.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
55.7 GW
Solar
70.4 GW
Total generation
+16.9 GW
Net export
17.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 687.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 55.7 GW dominates the scene, filling roughly three-quarters of the composition as an immense plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon under blazing midday sun, aluminium frames glinting intensely. Brown coal 4.0 GW appears in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes into the still air. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired CHP plant with a square smokestack and timber yard beside it, positioned left of centre. Wind onshore 2.2 GW appears as a small cluster of three modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers standing nearly motionless on a gentle hill at far right. Natural gas 2.0 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall, tucked between the solar field and the coal towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir visible along a shallow, sun-drenched river in the middle distance. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single conventional boiler house with a slender brick chimney emitting faint grey exhaust, placed beside the brown coal towers. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is hinted at by two tiny turbines on the extreme far horizon. The sky is absolutely cloudless, a deep cobalt blue washed nearly white near the horizon from the fierce heat. The landscape is parched late-summer Central German terrain — golden-brown grass, dry fields of stubble, dusty paths — with the air visibly shimmering with heat haze above the solar arrays. Lighting is intense overhead summer sun at 14:00, casting short sharp shadows directly beneath every structure. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive, reflecting the low electricity price. Painted in the style of a monumental 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, luminous atmospheric depth, visible impasto brushwork — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV panel busbar, cooling tower shell profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-14T12:20 UTC · Download image