Grid Poet — 18 September 2026, 12:00
Solar at 35 GW and wind at 22 GW drive 82% renewables, yielding 15.5 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is running a substantial net export of 15.5 GW at midday, driven by a strong combination of 35.0 GW solar and 22.1 GW wind. Despite 89% cloud cover, diffuse and partial direct radiation (305 W/m²) sustain high solar output, consistent with thin or broken cloud layers common in mid-September. Brown coal at 7.6 GW and natural gas at 3.6 GW remain online at minimum stable generation levels, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service commitments rather than economic dispatch at the prevailing 6.3 EUR/MWh day-ahead price. The low clearing price reflects the oversupply and is compressing thermal margins, though not yet reaching negative territory.
Grid poem Claude AI
A quiet flood of windborne silver and diffused light drowns the grid in abundance, pushing electrons outward across every border. The old coal giants idle at their lowest breath, diminished sentinels standing watch over a kingdom they no longer rule.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 46%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.0 GW
Solar
75.5 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
6.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 305.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland, reflecting a diffused milky daylight through high overcast; wind onshore 17.2 GW fills the distant right horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a row of turbines barely visible on a hazy northern horizon beyond a river estuary; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 3.6 GW sits in the left-centre middle ground as two compact CCGT blocks with single tall exhaust stacks releasing faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower and coal silos beside rail tracks; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest timber-clad generating station with a wood-chip yard and a short flue stack near the village edge; hydro 1.1 GW is a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse tucked along a flowing stream in the lower foreground. The sky is overcast at 89% cloud cover but luminous, a bright silver-white ceiling with occasional brighter patches where the September midday sun at Berlin local time 12:00 pushes diffused light through thinning cloud layers — full daylight, no shadows, soft even illumination. The landscape is late-summer central German: fields turning golden-green, deciduous trees still mostly leafed in dark green with the earliest hints of yellowing, temperature a mild 17.9°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the ultra-low electricity price — no oppressive haze, no dramatic tension, just a vast peaceful industrial pastoral. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people prominent.
Grid data: 18 September 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-18T10:20 UTC · Download image