Grid Poet — 25 August 2026, 12:00
Solar at 40 GW leads an 82% renewable midday, driving 14.5 GW of net exports alongside persistent coal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 40.1 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse radiation in late August; combined with 14.0 GW of wind, renewables supply 82.2% of demand. Germany is a net exporter of approximately 14.5 GW, reflecting ample midday generation well above the 57.4 GW domestic consumption. Thermal baseload remains substantial at 12.8 GW combined from brown coal (6.7 GW), hard coal (3.5 GW), and natural gas (2.6 GW), likely sustained by contracted positions, must-run obligations, and export economics. The day-ahead price of 67.2 EUR/MWh is moderate for a summer midday hour, suggesting export flows are absorbing the surplus without depressing prices toward zero.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver shroud the panels drink what light the clouds release, flooding the wires with quiet abundance while coal towers exhale their stubborn, ancient breath. Germany pours its electric harvest outward—rivers of current crossing every border, a nation overfull with unseen sun.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 56%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
14.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
71.9 GW
Total generation
+14.5 GW
Net export
67.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 295.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
130
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting pearly-white overcast light. Wind onshore 12.1 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning moderately in a light breeze. Wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on the distant horizon over a glimpse of the North Sea. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into a large industrial complex. Hard coal 3.5 GW sits beside it as a smaller coal-fired plant with rectangular boiler buildings and a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and a smaller cooling structure, positioned between the coal plants and the solar fields. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a rounded silo and low stack, nestled among trees at the edge of the panel fields. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a river winding through the middle distance. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover yet luminous—bright diffuse daylight at solar noon, no direct sun visible, a high silvery-white ceiling of stratus clouds. Temperature is a mild 20.8 °C; vegetation is lush late-summer green, mature crops in adjacent fields, deciduous trees in full leaf. The atmosphere is calm but slightly heavy, hinting at the moderate electricity price—not oppressive but dense, a humid summer overcast. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's sense of scale and atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial realism, rich colour palette of greens, silvers, warm greys and cool blues, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes, luminous diffuse light on every panel surface. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 August 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-25T10:20 UTC · Download image