Grid Poet — 8 September 2026, 14:00
Solar at 38.9 GW drives 7.2 GW net exports and a near-zero price under partly cloudy September skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 38.9 GW, reflecting strong early-afternoon irradiance of 385 W/m² under partly cloudy skies — a typical late-summer output profile for Germany. Combined with 9.9 GW of wind and 4.1 GW from biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 79.9%. Thermal baseload remains online with brown coal at 7.8 GW, hard coal at 3.3 GW, and natural gas at 2.2 GW, likely reflecting inflexible commitments and ancillary service provision. Generation exceeds consumption by 7.2 GW, yielding net exports of 7.2 GW to neighbouring markets, which is consistent with the near-zero day-ahead price of 1.6 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the plains, drowning coal's stubborn embers in rivers of nearly worthless light. The grid exhales its bounty across every border, a nation overflowing with the harvest of a late-summer sun.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
80%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
66.2 GW
Total generation
+7.2 GW
Net export
1.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.2°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 385.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.9 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland in the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a high early-afternoon sun partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting in the breeze. Wind onshore 9.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle ridgelines in the middle distance, their rotors spinning in a moderate wind. Hard coal 3.3 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single square cooling tower and a tall chimney beside the lignite complex. Natural gas 2.2 GW shows as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants and wind turbines. Biomass 3.3 GW appears as a modest biogas facility with a green-domed digester and a short flue near the edge of a ripe cornfield. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy blue horizon line. Hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a glinting stream in the foreground. The sky is 50% covered with bright white cumulus against vivid blue, full midday daylight at 14:00, warm late-summer atmosphere at 27°C with lush green deciduous trees edging golden fields. The mood is calm and open, reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-08T12:20 UTC · Download image