Grid Poet — 17 September 2026, 14:00
Solar 33.7 GW and wind 27.4 GW dominate, driving 17.5 GW net exports and a 12.2 EUR/MWh price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a mid-September afternoon, the German grid is generating 75.9 GW against a consumption of 58.4 GW, resulting in a net export position of 17.5 GW. Renewables account for 87.2% of generation, led by solar at 33.7 GW—performing remarkably well despite 94% cloud cover, likely due to high diffuse irradiance and the sheer installed capacity now online—and a combined 27.4 GW of wind. Thermal generation remains modest with brown coal at 5.2 GW providing baseload inertia, gas at 3.0 GW, and hard coal at 1.5 GW, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 12.2 EUR/MWh which reflects abundant supply. The substantial export volume is likely flowing to neighboring markets where afternoon demand and price spreads make cross-border flows economically rational.
Grid poem Claude AI
A silver sky pours unseen light upon ten million silent panels, while turbines bow and sweep across the plain like sentinels of a restless wind. The old coal towers exhale their fading breath, dwarfed by a tide of electrons flowing outward to every border.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 44%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
27.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
75.9 GW
Total generation
+17.5 GW
Net export
12.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 160.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting a bright but diffuse silver-white light under heavy overcast; wind onshore 22.9 GW fills the middle distance and right side as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, scattered across green late-summer fields and low hills; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears as a distant row of offshore turbines on the far-right horizon beyond a faint coastal strip; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with pale exhaust, positioned left of centre; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall, placed behind the solar fields; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single cooling tower and conveyor belt, tucked into the far left; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small river weir and powerhouse in the lower-left foreground. The sky is fully overcast at 94% cloud cover with a luminous, bright silver-grey canopy—full midday daylight but no direct sun visible, diffuse light casting soft even shadows. Vegetation is lush late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn yellows. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth—yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 17 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-17T12:20 UTC · Download image