Grid Poet — 24 September 2026, 14:00
Strong onshore wind and robust solar drive 81.5% renewable share, pushing 18.6 GW net export at depressed prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a late-September afternoon, renewables supply 81.5% of German load, driven by a strong combination of 24.1 GW onshore wind and 29.4 GW solar despite 77% cloud cover — diffuse and direct radiation together sustaining robust PV output. Total generation of 76.4 GW against 57.8 GW consumption yields approximately 18.6 GW of net export, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 19.7 EUR/MWh reflecting abundant supply across the interconnected European market. Thermal baseload remains online with brown coal at 6.6 GW, hard coal at 3.9 GW, and gas at 3.6 GW — all operating at reduced dispatch levels but maintaining minimum stable generation and providing inertia. The negative residual load and depressed pricing indicate favorable conditions for storage charging and cross-border flows into neighboring markets.
Grid poem Claude AI
A restless wind pours silver through a thousand spinning blades while the sun, veiled yet relentless, floods the land with more power than it can hold. The old coal furnaces smolder low, their breath thinning against an autumn sky that belongs now to the turning rotors and the quiet glass.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 39%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
28.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.4 GW
Solar
76.4 GW
Total generation
+18.6 GW
Net export
19.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
77.0% / 257.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
132
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-gold late-September farmland, their rotors visibly swept by a brisk wind. Solar 29.4 GW fills the middle foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffused afternoon light filtering through a high overcast sky. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting modest steam plumes, with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible at their base. Hard coal 3.9 GW appears just right of the brown coal plant as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular stacks and thin grey exhaust. Natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial biogas plant with cylindrical green digesters and a short flue. Wind offshore 4.0 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a row of large turbines barely distinguishable above a faint coastal haze line. Hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir on a stream cutting through the foreground meadow. The sky is 77% overcast with layered alto-stratus clouds in silver and slate grey, but with breaks allowing beams of direct sunlight at 257 W/m² to pierce through in shafts, casting dappled warm patches on the landscape — full early-afternoon daylight at 14:00. Temperature 16.9°C: vegetation is early-autumn, fields of stubble and green-gold grass, deciduous trees beginning to show amber edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting low electricity prices — no oppressive haze, air feels clean and expansive. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with mist in valleys, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, panel frame, and cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-24T12:20 UTC · Download image