Grid Poet — 10 October 2026, 12:00
Wind and solar together produce 53.8 GW, driving 12.9 GW of net exports and a zero-euro clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 10 October 2026, the German grid is generating 63.7 GW against a consumption of 50.8 GW, resulting in a net export of 12.9 GW. Wind generation is the dominant source at 28.6 GW combined (onshore 22.6 GW, offshore 6.0 GW), complemented by 25.2 GW of solar despite 76% cloud cover — likely driven by diffuse radiation and partial clearings given the 229 W/m² direct irradiance. The renewable share stands at 92.0%, with residual thermal generation from brown coal (2.4 GW), natural gas (1.8 GW), and hard coal (0.8 GW) running at or near minimum stable output levels. The day-ahead price has dropped to 0.0 EUR/MWh, consistent with the substantial oversupply and reflecting market conditions where thermal operators are unwilling to pay to shut down and restart inflexible units.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines sing across a land awash in light and wind, their blades carving promises into an autumn sky that yields more power than the nation can hold. Coal's last embers glow faintly at the margins, stubborn sentinels of an era dissolving into surplus.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 40%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.2 GW
Solar
63.7 GW
Total generation
+13.0 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
76.0% / 229.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling autumn hills with browning grass and scattered deciduous trees showing early yellow-orange foliage; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far background as a line of turbines on the hazy North Sea horizon; solar 25.2 GW fills the left-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, catching diffuse daylight filtering through a partly overcast sky; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power plant with a low smokestack and timber storage yard at mid-left; brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, a lignite conveyor belt visible; natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, nestled near the cooling towers; hard coal 0.8 GW is a small conventional boiler house with a single chimney barely visible behind the gas plant; hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley between hills. The sky is midday daylight at 12:00 in October — bright but softened, 76% cloud cover rendered as layered alto-cumulus with occasional breaks letting shafts of pale sunlight through onto the solar arrays. The atmosphere is calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the zero-euro price — no oppressive tones. Temperature 13.8°C autumn feeling with cool light. Wind at 13.7 km/h animates the turbine blades in gentle rotation and ripples through grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell reflection, every cooling tower's concrete texture. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 October 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-10T10:20 UTC · Download image