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Grid Poet — 11 June 2026, 18:00
Solar and wind lead at 75% renewable share, but 18.9 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a June evening, Germany draws 59.6 GW against 40.7 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 18.9 GW of net imports. Renewables account for 75% of domestic output, led by solar at 13.9 GW — still substantial despite full cloud cover and only 131 W/m² of direct radiation — and combined wind at 10.8 GW. Brown coal at 5.7 GW and natural gas at 3.0 GW provide the bulk of thermal backstop, with hard coal contributing a modest 1.4 GW. The day-ahead price of 128 EUR/MWh reflects the large import requirement and elevated residual load of 18.9 GW, consistent with a high-demand early-evening period where domestic renewable output is beginning its sunset decline.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their slow liturgy, while coal fires glow like embers in the belly of a nation still hungry for light. The grid stretches its arms across borders, borrowing the evening's last borrowed watts before the sun forgets this land entirely.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 34%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
75%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.9 GW
Solar
40.7 GW
Total generation
-18.9 GW
Net import
128.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 131.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
178
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 13.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon under diffuse overcast light; wind onshore 9.0 GW and wind offshore 1.8 GW together span the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning moderately in a 13.5 km/h breeze; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a low turbine hall just right of the coal complex; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack with pale exhaust, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 2.0 GW shows as a concrete run-of-river dam with foaming spillway at far left; hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a single smaller coal plant with a tall rectangular chimney behind the brown coal towers. The time is 18:00 in June — dusk is beginning, with a low orange-red glow along the western horizon bleeding into a heavy, fully overcast grey sky above, the atmosphere oppressive and dense, matching a 128 EUR/MWh price signal. The temperature is a mild 16.5°C; lush green early-summer vegetation — birch, beech, meadow grass — fills the foreground. Power lines on steel lattice pylons cross the middle distance, connecting the disparate generators. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of slate greys, warm ambers, and deep greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower shell. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 June 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T16:20 UTC · Download image