Grid Poet — 26 August 2026, 10:00
Solar leads at 32.1 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and gas supporting a 8.7 GW net export position.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a late-August morning, Germany's grid is generating 68.1 GW against 59.4 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 8.7 GW. Despite full overcast and only 12 W/m² of direct radiation, solar contributes a substantial 32.1 GW — largely from diffuse irradiance on a heavily cloud-covered day, though this figure is notably high for such conditions and may reflect brief clearing or forecast overshoot. Thermal baseload remains elevated, with brown coal at 9.3 GW, hard coal at 4.8 GW, and natural gas at 6.0 GW, collectively providing 20.1 GW — a typical summer dispatch pattern given moderate wind (10.5 GW combined onshore and offshore) and steady biomass at 4.2 GW. The day-ahead price of 137.5 EUR/MWh is surprisingly high for a net-export hour with 70.5% renewable share, suggesting tight conditions in neighboring markets, high CO₂ allowance costs, or transmission congestion limiting the value of the export surplus domestically.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the panels drink what light the clouds reluctantly surrender, while coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the grey. Germany stands flush with power, yet the market's iron hand squeezes gold from surplus megawatts.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 47%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 14%
70%
Renewable share
10.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.1 GW
Solar
68.1 GW
Total generation
+8.7 GW
Net export
137.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 12.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
208
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.1 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast sky; brown coal 9.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes into the heavy cloud layer; natural gas 6.0 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin tall exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.8 GW sits behind the gas plant as a dark industrial complex with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts; wind onshore 7.7 GW fills the right middle ground as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades barely turning in the 3.7 km/h breeze; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested on the far right horizon as a faint line of turbines above a distant grey sea; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a modest stack and timber yard near the centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with modest spillway in the lower right corner. The sky is completely overcast at 10:00 AM — full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, no shadows, a flat pearl-grey cloud ceiling pressing down oppressively to reflect the high 137.5 EUR/MWh price. The temperature is a cool 16.5 °C for late August — lush green deciduous trees show the first hints of late-summer fatigue, grass is deep green, and a faint mist lingers in low-lying areas between the solar arrays. The atmosphere is heavy and humid, the clouds thick and low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete texture, every PV panel's gridline pattern. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 August 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-26T08:20 UTC · Download image