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Grid Poet — 11 June 2026, 14:00
Solar at 37 GW leads a 90% renewable afternoon, with wind and residual thermal balancing modest demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 37.0 GW, accounting for 62.6% of total generation despite 73% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance and the sheer installed capacity of German PV still deliver strongly at midday in June. Combined onshore and offshore wind contribute 10.7 GW, while brown coal holds steady at 3.0 GW as baseload with natural gas at 2.1 GW providing residual flexibility. Total domestic generation falls 0.8 GW short of the 59.9 GW consumption, implying a modest net import of approximately 0.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 31.6 EUR/MWh is unremarkable for a summer afternoon with a 90.2% renewable share, reflecting comfortable supply-demand balance with minimal thermal dispatch pressure.
Grid poem Claude AI
A sun veiled in cloud still floods the plain with light, drowning coal's last ember beneath a golden tide. The turbines hum their quiet witness as the grid breathes almost wholly on the wind and sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.0 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
-0.8 GW
Net import
31.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 298.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a partly cloudy midday sky. Wind onshore 9.9 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers and nacelles arrayed across gentle green hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Brown coal 3.0 GW is rendered at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 3.5 GW sits as a modest wood-clad power station with a short smokestack and adjacent timber storage yard, just left of centre. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions haze, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 2.0 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and weir in a wooded valley at the right edge. Hard coal 0.8 GW and wind offshore 0.8 GW appear as small background details: a single coal stack near the brown coal complex and distant offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is full early-afternoon daylight — bright but softened by a 73% veil of alto- and stratocumulus cloud, with patches of blue and diffused sunlight casting gentle shadows. Vegetation is lush mid-June green: wheat fields, wildflower meadows, deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature of 16°C gives a cool freshness — no heat shimmer. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 June 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T12:20 UTC · Download image