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Grid Poet — 20 June 2026, 15:00
Solar at 40.7 GW under clear skies drives 92% renewable share, pushing exports to ~9 GW and prices near zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 40.7 GW under clear skies and 681 W/m² direct irradiance, accounting for 73% of total output and driving the renewable share to 92.2%. The system is long by 9.0 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately that magnitude to neighboring markets. The day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.2 EUR/MWh, consistent with a midday solar surplus on a summer weekend or low-demand weekday. Thermal baseload from brown coal (2.4 GW) and gas (1.6 GW) remains online at minimum stable generation levels, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service provision rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A tide of light pours from forty million crystalline faces, drowning the grid in gold so cheap it costs nearly nothing. The old coal towers exhale their thin, stubborn breath into a sky that no longer needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 73%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.7 GW
Solar
55.6 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
0.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.2°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 681.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the canvas, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing midday sun. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising into the motionless air. Wind onshore 3.9 GW is represented by a scattered cluster of modern three-blade turbines on gentle hills to the right, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines visible on a hazy horizon line beyond a river. Biomass 3.4 GW appears as a modest wood-chip power station with a low industrial chimney and stacked timber nearby. Hydro 1.9 GW is rendered as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a green valley in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and minimal vapor, tucked behind the coal towers. Hard coal 0.4 GW is barely visible as a single small smokestack beside the lignite facility. The time is 3 PM on a scorching summer afternoon: the sky is completely cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with intense white sunlight casting short, sharp shadows. The temperature is 31°C — the landscape is parched summer green turning golden, dry grasses between the solar rows, shimmering heat haze near the ground. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive clouds, no tension. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into blue distance — yet every technological element is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor hubs, nacelle housings, lattice transmission towers with sagging conductors, the precise geometry of monocrystalline PV cells. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale, but the sublime here is industrial and solar. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-20T13:20 UTC · Download image