Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 08:00
Strong onshore and offshore wind at 32 GW drive 87% renewable share and 6 GW net export under full overcast.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 08:00 on a fully overcast autumn morning is dominated by strong onshore wind at 25.6 GW and offshore wind at 6.5 GW, together providing nearly 64% of all generation. Solar contributes a modest 6.6 GW despite morning hour, limited by complete cloud cover and zero direct radiation. Brown coal holds steady at 4.0 GW providing baseload inertia, while natural gas at 2.0 GW and hard coal at 0.7 GW round out the thermal fleet at minimal dispatch levels. With total generation of 50.3 GW against 44.2 GW consumption, the system is net exporting approximately 6.1 GW, consistent with the suppressed day-ahead price of 9.8 EUR/MWh — a normal outcome when abundant wind drives generation well above domestic demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred-percent shroud of cloud cannot silence the roaring turbines — their blades carve rivers of power so deep that the grid overflows its banks and pours across every border. The old lignite towers exhale their last stubborn plumes into a sky already conquered by wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
87%
Renewable share
32.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.6 GW
Solar
50.3 GW
Total generation
+6.1 GW
Net export
9.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
94
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the grey horizon line over a strip of churning North Sea; solar 6.6 GW is represented by large fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the middle ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the heavy overcast; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling; biomass 3.9 GW sits as a compact wood-chip-fed plant with a cylindrical silo and modest smokestack beside the coal station; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a smaller CCGT unit with a single clean exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house on a calm river in the lower left; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller conventional stack barely visible behind the lignite station. The sky is uniformly covered by thick stratiform clouds at 100% cover, casting flat diffuse daylight consistent with 08:00 CEST — no direct sun, no shadows, a soft grey-white luminosity across the entire scene. Vegetation is early-autumn green with hints of yellowing leaves at 15.6°C. Grasses and tree canopies bend noticeably in 21 km/h wind. The atmosphere is calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the low 9.8 EUR/MWh price. 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, atmospheric depth with soft aerial perspective fading into the grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing, every PV cell pattern. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-20T06:20 UTC · Download image