Grid Poet — 29 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 38 GW and wind at 18 GW drive 93% renewables and 19.8 GW net export at negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 38.0 GW despite 79% cloud cover, reflecting Germany's extensive installed PV capacity and the diffuse radiation still available at midday in late August. Combined with 18.3 GW of wind (15.9 onshore, 2.4 offshore) and 5.2 GW of hydro and biomass, the renewable share reaches 93.2%. Total generation of 66.0 GW against consumption of 46.2 GW yields a net export of 19.8 GW, which is pushing into interconnectors and driving the day-ahead price to −1.2 EUR/MWh. Thermal dispatch is minimal — gas at 1.6 GW and brown coal at 2.5 GW are likely running at technical minimums or providing must-run reserves, while hard coal at 0.4 GW is nearly fully curtailed.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand glass fields drink the hazy August light, pouring more power than the nation can hold. The turbines hum their abundance into foreign wires, and the price slips quietly below zero.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 58%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
18.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
66.0 GW
Total generation
+19.9 GW
Net export
-1.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
79.0% / 163.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
47
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.0 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling late-summer fields, covering roughly 58% of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting softly under hazy, overcast-bright daylight filtered through high grey clouds. Wind onshore 15.9 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in a light breeze, occupying about 24% of the visual field. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is glimpsed far in the background as a cluster of turbines on the pale horizon line. Biomass 3.8 GW appears at left as a modest industrial facility with stacked wood-chip silos and a single low exhaust releasing thin white vapour. Brown coal 2.5 GW sits in the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam plumes, proportionally small against the renewable infrastructure. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack, positioned beside the cooling towers, barely emitting. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a river valley at the far left edge. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single nearly dormant smokestack, barely visible. The sky is a luminous silver-grey, thick with 79% cloud cover but bright enough to illuminate everything warmly — diffuse late-August afternoon daylight at 14:00, no direct sun but high ambient brightness. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and peaceful, reflecting the negative electricity price. Vegetation is lush green late-summer grass and mature deciduous trees with full foliage at 21.7°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour palette of muted silvers, warm greens, and soft industrial greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel junction box, and cooling tower contour. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 29 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-29T12:20 UTC · Download image