🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 3 June 2026, 14:00
Solar at 34.5 GW and wind at 17.2 GW drive 90% renewables under overcast skies with modest net exports.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a summer Wednesday, solar generation leads at 34.5 GW despite 97% cloud cover, indicating the high diffuse-radiation yield typical of Germany's large installed PV capacity; direct irradiance at 456 W/m² suggests partial cloud breaks boosting output above what overcast conditions alone would deliver. Combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 17.2 GW, bringing the total renewable share to 90.3% of the 63.4 GW generation mix. With consumption at 60.3 GW, the system is in net export of 3.1 GW — a modest figure reflecting comfortable cross-border flows rather than any curtailment pressure. Brown coal remains baseloaded at 3.6 GW alongside 2.0 GW of gas, a standard midday configuration; the day-ahead price of 38.0 EUR/MWh sits within a normal summer range, indicating no particular scarcity or oversupply stress.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a veiled sun the panels drink diffuse silver light, while turbine blades carve restless hymns across a grey and endless sky. Coal's stubborn ember glows in the distance — a fading hearth in a house already lit by the wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.5 GW
Solar
63.4 GW
Total generation
+3.2 GW
Net export
38.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.5°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 456.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
69
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.5 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland; wind onshore 14.3 GW fills the mid-ground and far right as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the overcast; biomass 3.6 GW sits as a compact wood-chip plant with a short exhaust stack and small steam column beside a timber storage yard; natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a single modern CCGT unit with a slim silver exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock built into a wooded hillside at the left edge; hard coal 0.6 GW is a small older power station with a single brick chimney barely visible behind the cooling towers. Full midday daylight at 14:00, but the sky is almost entirely overcast — a thick, luminous silvery-grey cloud blanket covers 97% of the sky, with one narrow break where direct sunlight pours through in a bright shaft illuminating a swath of solar panels, casting sharp shadows there while the rest of the landscape sits in soft diffuse light. Temperature is a mild 19.5 °C; lush green early-summer vegetation covers fields and hillsides, wildflowers dotting meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and balanced — no oppressive weight, gentle pastoral tone reflecting the moderate 38 EUR/MWh price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour palette of sage greens, pearl greys, and warm browns, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth to the rolling terrain, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module rail, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 June 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-03T12:20 UTC · Download image