Grid Poet — 30 August 2026, 12:00
Solar at 33.9 GW and onshore wind at 21.7 GW drive 20.6 GW of net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 30 August 2026 is in a pronounced oversupply condition, with 66.5 GW of generation against 45.9 GW of consumption, yielding a net export of 20.6 GW. Solar provides the largest single contribution at 33.9 GW despite 90% cloud cover, indicating that diffuse irradiance and the large installed PV base are sufficient to deliver substantial output; the 466 W/m² direct normal irradiance suggests intermittent breaks in the cloud deck. Onshore wind at 21.7 GW is unusually strong for a summer afternoon, consistent with the elevated 26.7 km/h wind speeds, and together with offshore wind brings the combined wind contribution to 23.7 GW. The day-ahead price has turned marginally negative at –1.0 EUR/MWh, a predictable outcome given that thermal plants—brown coal at 2.3 GW and gas at 0.8 GW—remain online for system services while renewables flood the market, and cross-border export capacity is evidently saturated.
Grid poem Claude AI
The summer wind and hidden sun conspire to drown the grid in light unseen, pushing power past every border like a river breaking its banks. Coal's ancient towers stand humbled, their plumes thin whispers against a sky that belongs to the turning blades.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 1%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
95%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.9 GW
Solar
66.5 GW
Total generation
+20.6 GW
Net export
-1.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.3°C / 27 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
90.0% / 466.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.9 GW dominates the foreground as an enormous field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across more than half the canvas, their blue-black surfaces reflecting a bright but hazy overcast sky with occasional breaks of direct sunlight; onshore wind 21.7 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind, scattered across rolling green late-summer hills; offshore wind 2.0 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines visible on the far horizon above a distant grey sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular chimney trailing pale exhaust smoke, set among stacked timber in the mid-left; brown coal 2.3 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising to the left background; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with water cascading into a green river valley at the far right; natural gas 0.8 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT unit barely visible behind the solar field; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack with faint dark smoke at the far left edge. The sky is bright midday summer daylight at noon, but 90% overcast with thick stratocumulus clouds, a few dramatic golden breaks where direct sun pours through onto the solar panels below. The landscape is lush green late-August German countryside at 23°C, grasses and wildflowers bending in the strong breeze. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price—open, uncrowded sky with gentle luminosity. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curve, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 30 August 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-30T10:20 UTC · Download image