Grid Poet — 18 September 2026, 16:00
Wind and solar together deliver over 45 GW, pushing renewables to 90% and holding prices at a moderate 30.8 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a late-summer afternoon, the German grid is in near-perfect equilibrium: 56.0 GW generated against 56.1 GW consumed, leaving a marginal net import of 0.1 GW. Renewables supply 90.1% of generation, anchored by 18.7 GW onshore wind, 5.4 GW offshore wind, and 21.5 GW solar — the latter performing solidly despite 64% cloud cover, benefiting from high September sun angles and diffuse irradiance. Thermal generation is minimal, with brown coal at 3.1 GW and natural gas at 1.4 GW providing baseload inertia and reserve, while hard coal contributes just 1.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 30.8 EUR/MWh reflects the comfortable renewable supply-demand balance, neither depressed by oversupply nor elevated by scarcity.
Grid poem Claude AI
A late sun scatters gold through broken clouds, while a thousand blades drink the September wind and the old coal furnaces murmur low, almost forgotten. The grid breathes in perfect balance — one breath drawn, one breath released — the hum of a country nearly carried on air and light alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 38%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.5 GW
Solar
56.0 GW
Total generation
0.1 GW
Net import
30.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
64.0% / 87.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 18.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning in moderate wind. Solar 21.5 GW fills the broad center-left foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled toward a partly cloudy sky, their surfaces catching scattered afternoon light. Offshore wind 5.4 GW appears in the far background as a line of turbines rising from a distant grey-blue sea horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of modest industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and thin exhaust stacks emitting faint white vapor. Brown coal 3.1 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with soft steam plumes drifting eastward. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a small compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single squat boiler house with a dark conveyor belt and a thin chimney, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley between the wind-covered hills. The sky is late-afternoon September daylight at 16:00 — the sun is moderately low in the west, partially veiled by layered cumulus clouds covering about two-thirds of the sky, producing warm diffuse light with occasional bright patches where sunlight breaks through. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn yellows. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, not oppressive. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich warm palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening toward the sea horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower rib is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 September 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-18T14:20 UTC · Download image