Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 14:00
Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar drive 92.7% renewables, creating 19.4 GW net exports at negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is generating 67.2 GW against consumption of 47.8 GW, yielding a net export position of 19.4 GW — a substantial volume likely flowing to neighboring markets. Wind onshore dominates at 28.0 GW, complemented by 26.3 GW of solar despite fully overcast skies and negligible direct radiation, indicating high diffuse irradiance from bright cloud cover at this mid-September afternoon hour. The renewable share reaches 92.7%, pushing the day-ahead price to −1.9 EUR/MWh, consistent with oversupply conditions where thermal baseload units — 2.9 GW of brown coal, 1.6 GW of gas, and 0.5 GW of hard coal — remain online for system stability or contractual reasons despite negative pricing. Biomass at 3.5 GW and hydro at 1.3 GW provide steady, dispatchable renewable output rounding out the generation stack.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines drink a restless wind while hidden sun pours silver through the veil, and the grid overflows like a river that has forgotten its banks. Coal's last embers smolder in defiance, paid nothing for their stubborn glow.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 39%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
31.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.3 GW
Solar
67.2 GW
Total generation
+19.4 GW
Net export
-1.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.0 GW dominates the right half and deep background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; solar 26.3 GW fills the centre-left foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse white light; biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of small industrial plants with rectangular buildings and modest chimneys trailing thin white smoke; wind offshore 3.3 GW is visible on the far horizon as a line of tall turbines rising from a grey sea; brown coal 2.9 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts; natural gas 1.6 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housings near the brown coal plant; hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam with spillway releasing water into a wooded valley at the left edge; hard coal 0.5 GW appears as a single modest stack with a thin grey exhaust trail beside the gas plant. TIME: early afternoon full daylight at 14:00 in September, but the entire sky is a uniform bright overcast — dense 100% cloud cover, no blue sky, no sun disc visible, flat white-grey luminous ceiling casting soft shadowless light across the landscape. Vegetation is late-summer green with early hints of autumn yellowing. Temperature mild at 16.6°C — no heat haze, crisp air. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive despite the industrial elements, reflecting the negative electricity price — open, unhurried, almost serene. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, layered colour with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective softening distant turbines into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curve and exhaust stack. The composition balances sublime natural breadth with precise industrial realism, as if Caspar David Friedrich painted the Energiewende. No text, no labels, no human figures.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-20T12:20 UTC · Download image