Grid Poet — 30 August 2026, 14:00
Solar at 33.8 GW and onshore wind at 19.5 GW drive 17.5 GW net export under full overcast, pushing prices negative.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a late-August Sunday, the German grid is operating at 96.7% renewable share with solar contributing 33.8 GW and wind onshore adding 19.5 GW despite full cloud cover—diffuse radiation at 114 W/m² is still sufficient to drive substantial PV output. Total generation of 61.9 GW against 44.4 GW consumption yields a net export position of 17.5 GW, pushing the day-ahead price to −1.1 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation is at minimal levels with brown coal at 1.2 GW, hard coal at 0.5 GW, and natural gas at 0.3 GW, likely operating at must-run minimums for system services. The negative residual load and marginal negative pricing reflect the characteristic summer oversupply pattern where cross-border export capacity becomes the binding constraint.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines turn in tireless ranks, and silicon fields drink every scattered photon the clouds release. The old furnaces idle at whisper-heat, their purpose dimming as the green tide floods the wires with more than the nation can consume.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 1%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 2%
97%
Renewable share
21.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.8 GW
Solar
61.9 GW
Total generation
+17.5 GW
Net export
-1.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.9°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 114.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
24
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 Clean Hour #1 Helle Brise
Image prompt
Solar 33.8 GW dominates the centre and right as vast plains of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon under diffuse white light; wind onshore 19.5 GW fills the upper background and left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades visibly spinning in a strong breeze bending the late-summer grasses; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad power station with a short stack and small steam wisp at mid-left; hydro 1.2 GW is a stone-faced run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-left foreground; brown coal 1.2 GW appears as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a thin steam plume far in the left background; hard coal 0.5 GW is a smaller conventional stack beside it, barely smoking. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a flat, luminous pearl-grey ceiling with no blue, no sun disc, but full midday brightness diffusing evenly, 14:00 summer daylight. Temperature 22.9 °C: lush dark-green deciduous trees in full August foliage, wildflowers in meadows between panel rows, warm humid atmosphere with slight haze. The mood is calm and expansive, matching the negative electricity price—open, unoppressive sky, serene pastoral-industrial landscape. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich colour palette of greens, silvers, and muted blues, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft grey at the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 30 August 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-30T12:20 UTC · Download image