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Grid Poet — 21 June 2026, 16:00
Solar at 33.5 GW drives 89% renewables under clear skies, pushing prices to 12.8 EUR/MWh with net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 33.5 GW under clear skies and 583 W/m² direct irradiance, providing roughly 70% of total generation alone. With total generation at 48.1 GW against 45.7 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 2.4 GW. The renewable share of 89.1% is characteristic of a cloudless summer afternoon with moderate demand; the day-ahead price of 12.8 EUR/MWh reflects comfortable oversupply. Brown coal persists at 3.3 GW as baseload, while gas-fired generation is largely backed down to 1.6 GW, and hard coal is nearly offline at 0.4 GW — conventional plants are running at technical minimums or fulfilling must-run obligations.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing solstice sun conscripts every crystal panel into service, drowning the grid in golden abundance. Below the radiant tide, old coal furnaces smolder on in quiet obstinacy, their plumes thin whispers against a sovereign sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.5 GW
Solar
48.1 GW
Total generation
+2.5 GW
Net export
12.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 583.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
78
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 33.5 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling fields and rooftops, occupying roughly 70% of the composition — thousands of aluminium-framed panels angled toward a blazing afternoon sun, their glass surfaces catching white-hot reflections. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers rising above a lignite plant, thin steam plumes drifting in nearly still air. Biomass 3.4 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green digester dome and a short exhaust stack. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete weir and small run-of-river powerhouse nestled along a river in the mid-ground. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, tucked behind the river. Wind onshore 3.5 GW is shown as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the 2.1 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by two tiny turbines on a hazy blue horizon line. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep summer blue with intense direct sunlight casting sharp shadows; the time is 4 PM with the sun still high but slightly westward. Lush green deciduous trees, golden wheat fields, and wildflower meadows reflect the 28 °C June heat — shimmering heat haze rises from the panel arrays. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into blue-hazed distance — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, panel bus ribbons, cooling tower parabolic curves, turbine blade pitch mechanisms. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 21 June 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-21T14:20 UTC · Download image