Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 12:00
Strong onshore wind and high diffuse solar drive 92.6% renewables, pushing prices negative with 18.3 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is generating 68.0 GW against 49.7 GW of domestic consumption, yielding a net export of 18.3 GW. Wind onshore dominates at 25.6 GW, supplemented by 29.0 GW of solar output that, despite full overcast and zero direct radiation, still delivers substantial diffuse-light generation from the extensive installed base. The renewable share reaches 92.6%, with brown coal providing 3.1 GW of baseload and natural gas contributing a minimal 1.6 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −1.2 EUR/MWh suppressing thermal dispatch. The negative price reflects the expected consequence of abundant wind and solar coinciding with moderate September demand, incentivizing flexible loads and cross-border exports to absorb the excess.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey cathedral of cloud stretches unbroken above the Reich, yet beneath it the turbines roar and the silent panels drink the scattered light, drowning the grid in unwanted plenty. The coal towers exhale thin ghosts into the overcast, relics still breathing in a kingdom the wind has already claimed.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 43%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
28.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.0 GW
Solar
68.0 GW
Total generation
+18.3 GW
Net export
-1.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 19 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
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning briskly in steady wind. Solar 29.0 GW occupies the centre-right as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat, pearly white sky with no direct sunlight. Brown coal 3.1 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes, beside a lignite conveyor and stockpile. Biomass 3.7 GW sits left-centre as a compact wood-clad power station with a small smokestack and timber storage yard. Wind offshore 3.3 GW is visible on the distant horizon line as a cluster of offshore turbines barely visible through haze above a grey North Sea strip. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a single small CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer, tucked between the biomass plant and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a modest dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley in the far left background. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a tiny, barely visible conventional stack behind the brown coal towers. Lighting is full midday daylight at noon under a completely overcast, uniformly grey-white sky — no sun disk visible, no shadows, soft diffuse illumination across the entire landscape. Temperature is mild at 16.8°C; vegetation is late-September green with the faintest hints of early autumn yellowing at leaf edges. The wind is visible in bending grasses, rippling puddles, and briskly spinning turbine blades. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive despite the heavy cloud ceiling, consistent with a negative electricity price — no oppressive mood, just quiet, immense overproduction. 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 aerial perspective with depth receding into misty grey distance — but every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-20T10:20 UTC · Download image