Grid Poet — 10 October 2026, 10:00
Onshore wind and solar dominate at 41.8 GW combined, driving net exports of 7.4 GW and a zero day-ahead price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is operating in a strong net export position of 7.4 GW at mid-morning, driven by robust onshore wind at 25.4 GW combined with 16.4 GW of solar under mostly clear skies. Renewables account for 90.1% of the 58.8 GW generation mix, pushing the day-ahead price to 0.0 EUR/MWh — a reflection of ample supply exceeding the 51.4 GW domestic load. Thermal generation remains at minimal levels, with brown coal at 2.3 GW and gas at 2.6 GW likely providing residual balancing and must-run obligations, while hard coal contributes a marginal 0.8 GW. Biomass holds steady at 4.4 GW in its typical baseload role, and hydro adds 0.9 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
The autumn wind roars across ten thousand turning blades while the sun pours gold upon silicon fields, and the old coal towers stand quiet as monuments to a fading age. At zero price the grid exhales its bounty across the borders, a nation's turbines singing louder than its furnaces.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 28%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
90%
Renewable share
31.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.4 GW
Solar
58.8 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
28.0% / 124.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
65
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the composition, filling the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling autumn hills with turning yellow-brown foliage, their blades rotating in moderate wind. Solar 16.4 GW occupies the centre-foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward the sun, reflecting bright mid-morning October light. Wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far background as a line of larger turbines rising from a distant grey-blue sea on the horizon. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and modest smokestack on the left-centre. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour plume, positioned behind the biomass plant. Brown coal 2.3 GW is depicted as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, set in the far left background, subdued and partially shadowed. Hydro 0.9 GW shows as a small concrete dam with water cascading through a channel in the left foreground. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small stack with barely visible exhaust, nearly hidden behind the cooling towers. The sky is 72% clear with scattered cumulus clouds, lit by full mid-morning daylight from the east-southeast with a sun angle appropriate for 10:00 in early October in central Germany. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — spacious blue sky with gentle golden light across the landscape. Temperature is mild at 12.6°C; vegetation shows early autumn tones with muted greens, golds, and russets. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze in the distant valleys, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, PV panel frames, cooling tower geometry, and industrial structures. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 October 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-10T08:20 UTC · Download image