Grid Poet — 9 October 2026, 12:00
Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar drive 88.6% renewable share, pushing 15.2 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 9 October 2026, Germany's grid is strongly wind-dominated: onshore wind delivers 34.4 GW and offshore adds 6.0 GW, together accounting for 52.5% of the 76.9 GW total generation. Solar contributes 22.8 GW despite full overcast and negligible direct radiation of 11 W/m², likely sustained by high diffuse irradiance across the country's large installed PV base. With consumption at 61.7 GW and generation at 76.9 GW, the system is in net export of approximately 15.2 GW to neighbouring markets, which is consistent with the near-zero day-ahead price of 3.8 EUR/MWh. Brown coal persists at 4.6 GW alongside 3.2 GW of gas and 0.9 GW of hard coal — modest baseload contributions reflecting must-run obligations and contractual positions rather than economic dispatch signals at this price level.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades thresh the grey October sky, their harvest so vast that power spills across every border like grain from an overflowing silo. Beneath the leaden clouds, the old lignite towers still breathe their pale plumes — sentinels of an age slowly yielding to the wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 30%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
40.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.8 GW
Solar
76.9 GW
Total generation
+15.3 GW
Net export
3.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.0°C / 28 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
79
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 34.4 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly blurred with motion in strong wind; solar 22.8 GW appears as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle slopes in the centre-right foreground, their surfaces reflecting only the flat grey light of total overcast; wind offshore 6.0 GW is visible on the distant horizon at centre-left as a line of larger turbines rising from a steel-grey North Sea; brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes shearing sideways in the wind, beside a conveyor-fed lignite bunker; biomass 4.0 GW sits just left of centre as a modest wood-chip-fed power plant with a single squat smokestack and fuel storage dome; natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plant and wind fields; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock on a wooded hillside at far left; hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller conventional stack barely visible behind the lignite towers. The sky is completely overcast with thick, uniform stratiform cloud in tones of pewter and dove grey, lit by diffuse midday daylight — no sun disk visible, no shadows on the ground. The season is early autumn: trees show gold and russet foliage, meadows are damp green, temperature is cool at 9°C. The low electricity price is conveyed by a calm, open, spacious composition with wide horizon. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing — a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 October 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-09T10:20 UTC · Download image