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Grid Poet — 11 June 2026, 13:00
Solar at 37.6 GW leads an 88% renewable midday, with 2.2 GW net imports covering the remaining gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 37.6 GW despite 82% cloud cover, reflecting the long daylight hours and high installed capacity typical of a June midday; diffuse radiation still drives substantial output even under overcast skies, with 287 W/m² direct irradiance supplementing. Combined onshore and offshore wind contribute 9.4 GW, a modest figure consistent with the light 11.4 km/h winds. Fossil thermal plants provide a combined 6.9 GW — brown coal at 3.4 GW running near baseload, gas at 2.5 GW for flexibility, and hard coal at 1.0 GW — indicating continued must-run or contractual commitments even at 88.4% renewable share. Domestic generation falls 2.2 GW short of the 61.7 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 2.2 GW, while the day-ahead price of 45.3 EUR/MWh sits in a moderate range consistent with a midday period where solar supply is high but not quite sufficient to fully displace imports.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter veil the sun still floods the land with silent silver fire, and forty thousand crystalline faces drink the hidden light. The old coal towers breathe their last warm sighs beside a world already turning toward the wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.6 GW
Solar
59.5 GW
Total generation
-2.2 GW
Net import
45.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
82.0% / 287.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green June farmland toward the horizon; wind onshore 8.8 GW appears as a line of fifteen tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on a ridge behind the panels, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 0.6 GW is a faint cluster of smaller turbines barely visible on a distant hazy horizon; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes; biomass 3.6 GW sits just right of the coal as a cluster of mid-sized industrial halls with wood-chip conveyors and a single smokestack with pale exhaust; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with polished exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer beside the biomass facility; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller single cooling tower and dark conveyor gantry behind the gas plant; hydro 2.0 GW is suggested by a river cutting through the foreground valley with a small weir and turbine house. Time is 13:00 midday: full diffuse daylight under a heavy 82% overcast sky — a thick layer of grey-white stratocumulus blankets the sky, but the sun partially breaks through in brighter patches, casting a soft silvery luminance across the landscape without hard shadows. Temperature is a cool 15°C; June vegetation is lush bright green, grasses bending slightly in mild breeze. The atmosphere is moderate, neither oppressive nor serene, matching a 45 EUR/MWh price — slightly hazy air, muted horizon. 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 aerial perspective with depth fading into misty distance — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV panel cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curves with condensation drift, CCGT exhaust diffusers. The composition balances the sublime scale of nature and industry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 June 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T11:20 UTC · Download image