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Grid Poet — 19 June 2026, 12:00
Solar at 50.1 GW drives 90.6% renewable share and 6.9 GW net export at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 50.1 GW, representing 77.7% of total generation alone, consistent with a nearly cloudless midsummer midday with 574 W/m² direct irradiance. Wind contributes a modest 3.0 GW combined, reflecting near-calm conditions at 0.7 km/h. Total generation of 64.5 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 57.6 GW, yielding a net export of 6.9 GW, which depresses the day-ahead price to 15.0 EUR/MWh. Lignite at 3.3 GW and gas at 1.9 GW remain online at minimum stable generation levels, providing inertia and balancing services ahead of the evening solar ramp-down.
Grid poem Claude AI
A molten sun pours gold across ten million panels, drowning the grid in light so fierce that power spills beyond the borders. The old coal towers stand half-idle, breathing faint plumes into a sky they no longer command.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.1 GW
Solar
64.5 GW
Total generation
+6.9 GW
Net export
15.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
12.0% / 574.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 50.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under intense noon sunlight. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising lazily. Biomass 3.5 GW sits just left of centre as a compact wood-chip facility with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard. Wind onshore 2.2 GW is rendered as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at the right, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a single modern CCGT plant with a clean exhaust stack near centre-left, partially tucked behind the solar field. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at the far right. Wind offshore 0.8 GW appears as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small traditional power station chimney near the lignite towers. The sky is vast, nearly cloudless at 12% cover, with a few high cirrus wisps, blazing bright summer blue, the sun directly overhead casting short shadows. Temperature 25.5°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between solar rows, heat shimmer rising from dark panel surfaces. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, conveying low electricity prices — open, spacious, serene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective into hazy blue distance — yet every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, panel wiring, cooling tower concrete texture, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 19 June 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-19T10:20 UTC · Download image