Grid Poet — 4 September 2026, 14:00
Onshore wind (30.9 GW) and solar (32.5 GW) drive 93% renewable share, pushing 20.8 GW net exports at near-zero price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 78.2 GW against 57.4 GW of consumption, yielding a net export of 20.8 GW to neighboring systems. Wind onshore dominates at 30.9 GW, complemented by 32.5 GW of solar — notably high given fully overcast skies, indicating strong diffuse irradiance across a large installed PV fleet. Thermal generation remains minimal: gas at 2.0 GW, brown coal at 2.5 GW, and hard coal at 0.8 GW, consistent with economic displacement at a day-ahead price of −0.1 EUR/MWh. The near-zero clearing price reflects the substantial oversupply and suggests cross-border transmission capacity is approaching saturation even as curtailment likely remains limited.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind roars across a continent already sated, pushing power through cables that groan with generosity, while turbines spin their silver arms against a pewter sky. Beneath the clouds, a billion silent panels drink the scattered light and turn it into rivers of current that no dam could hold.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 42%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
35.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.5 GW
Solar
78.2 GW
Total generation
+20.8 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.7°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 16.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 30.9 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines stretching across rolling green late-summer hills from the centre to the right of the composition, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind, lattice towers receding into atmospheric haze. Solar 32.5 GW fills the foreground and left-centre as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light from a completely overcast sky. Wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon at sea, barely visible through haze. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a squat smokestack and timber yard in the mid-ground left. Brown coal 2.5 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the clouds, positioned in the distant left background. Natural gas 2.0 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with a powerhouse beside a winding river in the lower foreground. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small industrial stack barely visible beyond the cooling towers. The sky is a uniform blanket of warm grey stratus at 100% cloud cover, full early-afternoon daylight diffused evenly with no shadows, the light bright but soft. Temperature is a pleasant 22.7°C; vegetation is lush late-summer green with some early hints of gold in the grasses. Wind visibly animates the scene — trees bending, grass rippling, turbine blades in dynamic motion blur. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive heaviness, just an expansive, generous landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, extraordinary atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, rendered with the reverence of a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-04T12:20 UTC · Download image