Grid Poet — 21 September 2026, 12:00
Wind and solar deliver 67.4 GW combined, creating 22.5 GW net exports and near-zero prices at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is experiencing a strong renewable surplus at midday, with combined wind (31.0 GW) and solar (36.4 GW) dominating generation at 85.9% renewable share. Net exports stand at 22.5 GW, reflecting the substantial gap between 83.7 GW of total generation and 61.2 GW of domestic consumption. The day-ahead price has collapsed to near-zero at 0.2 EUR/MWh, consistent with this level of oversupply, yet brown coal (6.7 GW) and hard coal (2.7 GW) remain online—likely reflecting inflexible baseload commitments and minimum-run constraints. Despite 100% reported cloud cover, solar output of 36.4 GW indicates significant diffuse irradiance supplemented by partial cloud breaks, consistent with the 181 W/m² direct radiation reading.
Grid poem Claude AI
A flood of silent power pours from blades and glass alike, drowning the market price beneath a tide of green abundance. The old coal towers stand unmoved, breathing steam into a sky they no longer own.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 43%
Biomass 4%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
30.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.4 GW
Solar
83.7 GW
Total generation
+22.5 GW
Net export
0.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 181.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
104
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland toward the horizon; wind onshore 25.9 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in steady wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears in the distant left background as a cluster of offshore turbines visible on a hazy horizon line; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; hard coal 2.7 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and thin vapour trail beside the coal complex; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a short squat chimney and timber storage yard; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse near a stream in the mid-ground. Full midday daylight at 12:00 Berlin time, but the entire sky is a uniform bright overcast—thick blanket of stratus clouds, white-grey, no blue patches, yet the landscape is well-lit with soft diffused light and minimal shadows. Temperature 16.4°C, early autumn: fields show late-summer green beginning to turn gold, deciduous trees have full but slightly yellowing foliage. Wind at 18.4 km/h visibly bends grasses and rustles leaves. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price—no oppressive mood, just a vast luminous overcast sky pressing gently above an industrialised pastoral landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 21 September 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-21T10:20 UTC · Download image