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Grid Poet — 11 June 2026, 15:00
Solar at 34.1 GW leads a 90% renewable afternoon, with wind and modest thermal filling the narrow import gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 34.1 GW despite 97% cloud cover, which is consistent with the 270 W/m² direct radiation indicating broken or thin cloud layers still permitting substantial irradiance at this mid-June afternoon hour. Combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 11.7 GW, while lignite baseload holds at 3.0 GW and biomass at 3.5 GW. Domestic generation falls 1.5 GW short of the 58.7 GW consumption, implying a modest net import of 1.5 GW. The day-ahead price of 51.0 EUR/MWh sits near the seasonal mean, reflecting an almost entirely renewables-supplied system with only marginal thermal dispatch required to close the balance.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver veil the sun still reigns, flooding silicon fields with stubborn light while turbines hum across the distant plains. A whisper of coal-smoke lingers at the margins, the empire of fossil fire reduced to embers.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 60%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
11.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.1 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
-1.5 GW
Net import
51.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 270.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.1 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across the entire centre and right of the composition, covering rolling green June farmland, their aluminium frames catching diffuse silver light; wind onshore 10.6 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on gentle hills behind the solar fields, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.1 GW is visible as a faint line of turbines on the far horizon; biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack at the left-centre; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 2.1 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete weir and small run-of-river powerhouse along a river in the foreground; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small stack barely smoking at the far left edge. The sky is fully overcast at 97% cloud cover — a flat, luminous silver-grey ceiling — yet bright enough for full June afternoon daylight at 15:00, with diffuse illumination casting soft shadowless light across the landscape. Temperature 16.7 °C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses, mild spring-summer atmosphere. Moderate day-ahead price conveyed by a calm, neutral sky without oppressive weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T13:20 UTC · Download image