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Grid Poet — 25 May 2026, 18:00
Solar dominates at 18.3 GW but 11.9 GW net imports needed as evening demand outstrips domestic generation.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm late-May evening, solar generation remains robust at 18.3 GW despite 49% cloud cover, benefiting from the long daylight hours and 374 W/m² direct irradiance still available at this hour. Wind contributes a modest 4.2 GW combined (2.9 onshore, 1.3 offshore), consistent with the light 9.7 km/h surface winds. Domestic generation totals 32.9 GW against 44.8 GW consumption, requiring approximately 11.9 GW of net imports — a gap also reflected in the elevated day-ahead price of 118.8 EUR/MWh, which signals tight supply conditions across the interconnected market during the evening demand ramp. Dispatchable thermal plants are running at moderate levels — brown coal at 2.6 GW, biomass at 3.8 GW, gas at 1.7 GW, and hard coal at 0.8 GW — providing baseload and flexibility as solar output begins its decline toward sunset.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun still blazes across a million rooftops, golden and defiant, yet the grid beneath groans with hunger it cannot feed alone. From distant borders, invisible rivers of electrons rush inward, summoned by the price of a fading afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 56%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.3 GW
Solar
32.9 GW
Total generation
-11.9 GW
Net import
118.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49.0% / 374.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.3 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green hills, catching warm orange-gold light; brown coal 2.6 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.8 GW sits left-of-centre as a cluster of wood-clad biomass power stations with modest chimneys and conveyor belts feeding fuel hoppers; wind onshore 2.9 GW occupies the mid-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is visible in the distant background as a small row of turbines on the hazy horizon suggesting a far-off North Sea coast; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 0.8 GW is a small, gritty coal-fired station with a single squat smokestack near the brown coal towers; hydro 1.6 GW is rendered as a stone-faced dam with spillway in a forested valley at the far right edge. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in late May — the sun is low in the west, casting a rich amber-orange glow across the lower third of the sky, with the upper sky deepening to warm blue-violet. Scattered cumulus clouds at roughly half coverage catch dramatic orange and pink light on their undersides. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a slight haze suggesting the high 118.8 EUR/MWh price tension — humid, warm summer air at 27.4°C with lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in the meadows, and long shadows stretching eastward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's ribbed concrete structure — a grand industrial pastoral masterwork. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 May 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-25T16:20 UTC · Download image