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Grid Poet — 18 June 2026, 08:00
Solar leads at 22.9 GW under clear skies, but 9.8 GW net imports fill the gap as thermal plants support demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 22.9 GW under nearly cloudless skies, constituting 47% of total generation, while wind contributes a modest 3.5 GW combined amid light winds of 10.4 km/h. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.4 GW, natural gas at 6.5 GW, and hard coal at 2.9 GW collectively provide 34% of supply, reflecting the need to cover a 9.8 GW residual load gap between renewable output and 58.7 GW demand. Domestic generation totals 48.9 GW against 58.7 GW consumption, indicating a net import of approximately 9.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 118.7 EUR/MWh is elevated for a sunny summer morning, consistent with tight supply-demand balance and reliance on marginal gas and coal units to meet the import-adjusted load.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing June sun floods the panels with gold, yet beneath the radiant surface, coal furnaces smolder and gas turbines hum—an empire of light still tethered to the fires of old. The grid strains gently at the seams, its hunger outpacing even the summer's generous beams.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 47%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
66%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.9 GW
Solar
48.9 GW
Total generation
-9.8 GW
Net import
118.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 113.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green farmland, angled toward a blazing morning sun in a nearly cloudless sky. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the warm air, adjacent to an open-pit lignite mine with terraced earth tones. Natural gas 6.5 GW appears in the center-left as a compact modern CCGT power plant with twin cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and conveyor belt structures. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass facility with a domed storage silo and thin wisp of pale smoke, positioned in the mid-ground among trees. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river dam spanning a gentle river in the foreground, water cascading over its weir. Wind onshore 2.4 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on distant hills turning slowly in light breeze, and wind offshore 1.1 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon. The lighting is full bright June morning daylight at 08:00, sun low-to-mid in the east casting long golden shadows across the landscape. The sky is brilliant blue with virtually no clouds, yet the atmosphere carries a faintly heavy, warm haze suggesting elevated prices and tight conditions. Lush summer vegetation—green meadows, mature deciduous trees in full leaf—fills the foreground at 18.7°C. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated color, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel array, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 June 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-18T06:20 UTC · Download image