Grid Poet — 3 June 2026, 16:00

Solar at 28 GW and wind at 17 GW dominate under full overcast, with 2.6 GW net imports bridging the gap.

Grid analysis Claude AI

At 16:00 on a summer afternoon, renewables supply 89.4% of a 59.0 GW national load, with solar contributing 28.1 GW and combined wind delivering 16.8 GW despite full cloud cover — the 192 W/m² direct radiation indicates that diffuse and intermittent beam radiation are still driving substantial PV output through the overcast layer. Brown coal holds steady at 3.5 GW providing baseload inertia, while gas generation is modest at 1.9 GW. Domestic generation totals 56.4 GW against 59.0 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 2.6 GW, consistent with the moderate day-ahead price of 76.9 EUR/MWh — elevated relative to recent summer norms, likely reflecting the residual thermal generation required to close the gap under overcast conditions that limit peak solar yield.

Grid poem Claude AI

Beneath a pewter sky the sun still labors, pressing light through cloud to wake ten million crystal faces across the plain. The turbines lean into the wind like pilgrims walking home, while ancient coal sighs its slow, warm breath into the haze.

Generation mix

Wind onshore 25%

Wind offshore 5%

Solar 50%

Biomass 6%

Hydro 4%

Natural gas 3%

Hard coal 1%

Brown coal 6%

89%

Renewable share

16.8 GW

Wind (on + offshore)

28.1 GW

Solar

56.4 GW

Total generation

-2.6 GW

Net import

76.9 €/MWh

Day-ahead price

18.3°C / 19 km/h

Temp / Wind speed

Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)

100.0% / 192.0 W/m²

Cloud cover / Radiation

gCO₂/kWh

Image prompt

Solar 28.1 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast sky. Wind onshore 14.0 GW fills the right half and recedes into the distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning visibly in a steady breeze, scattered across gentle hills. Wind offshore 2.8 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon above a sliver of grey sea. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting rightward, and a conveyor belt feeding dark lignite into a large industrial complex. Biomass 3.6 GW sits beside the coal plant as a squat facility with a rounded silo, woodchip storage yard, and a single thin exhaust stack emitting pale vapour. Hydro 2.0 GW is rendered as a concrete dam built into a forested hillside in the far left middle ground, white water cascading from spillways. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a tall slender exhaust stack and single smaller cooling unit, positioned between the biomass plant and the solar fields. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a small, aged brick power station with a single square chimney, barely visible behind the gas plant. The sky is completely overcast with a heavy, flat blanket of grey-white cloud at 100% cover, yet full late-afternoon daylight — 16:00 in June — illuminates the scene brightly and evenly with no shadows; the atmosphere feels thick and slightly oppressive, reflecting the 76.9 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is lush early-summer green — tall grasses, leafy deciduous trees, wildflowers. Temperature is a mild 18°C so no heat haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower flute, and exhaust stack flange. No text, no labels.

Grid data: 3 June 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-03T14:20 UTC · Download image