Grid Poet — 10 October 2026, 14:00
Wind (28.9 GW) and solar (24.6 GW) dominate, creating 15.0 GW net export and zero-price conditions.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a partly cloudy October afternoon, renewables supply 92.2% of German load, driven by a strong combined wind fleet of 28.9 GW and 24.6 GW of solar despite partial cloud cover. Total generation of 63.1 GW against 48.1 GW consumption yields a net export position of 15.0 GW, pushing the day-ahead price to 0.0 EUR/MWh — a textbook curtailment-risk hour. Thermal plants remain online at modest levels: brown coal at 2.5 GW likely on must-run constraints, natural gas at 1.4 GW providing balancing capacity, and hard coal at 1.0 GW. Biomass contributes a steady 3.9 GW baseload, while hydro adds 0.8 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A tide of wind and light floods the autumn grid, drowning price to nothing, while old coal chimneys stand like stubborn sentinels refusing to yield the shore. The land exhales more power than it can swallow, and the surplus spills across every border like a river breaching its banks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 39%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
28.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.6 GW
Solar
63.1 GW
Total generation
+15.0 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
13.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
51.0% / 141.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling mid-German hills with fading green and early-autumn foliage, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon beyond a distant coast. Solar 24.6 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward a partly cloudy sky, their glass surfaces reflecting broken sunlight and dappled cloud shadows. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial facilities with rectangular buildings, wood-chip storage silos, and thin exhaust stacks emitting pale vapour, positioned in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes and a low conveyor structure, modest but unmistakable. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit, situated just right of the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller stack with a thin dark wisp beside the gas plant. Hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the far middle distance. The sky is early-afternoon full daylight with roughly half cloud cover — cumulus clouds drifting across a bright blue sky, direct sunlight breaking through gaps and casting moving patches of light and shadow across the landscape. Temperature is mild at 13°C; vegetation shows early autumn tones — golden birches, fading grass, some green conifers. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a zero-price hour with no tension or oppression. Style: 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze in the distance — but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower ribbing, and industrial stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 October 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-10T12:20 UTC · Download image