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Grid Poet — 22 June 2026, 09:00
Solar leads at 33.6 GW with lignite and gas filling the gap as light winds force 3.5 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 33.6 GW, accounting for 57.6% of total generation, though partly attenuated by 49% cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to 194 W/m². Wind contributes only 2.6 GW combined, reflecting the light 8.5 km/h surface winds across central Germany. Lignite at 8.5 GW and hard coal at 2.9 GW together provide a substantial 19.6% baseload share, with natural gas adding 5.1 GW of mid-merit support. Domestic generation falls 3.5 GW short of the 61.8 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 3.5 GW; the day-ahead price of 107.2 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply-demand balance and the marginal cost of thermal dispatch required to complement an otherwise strong renewable portfolio.
Grid poem Claude AI
A sun-drenched realm of glass and silicon stretches to the horizon, yet beneath the golden flood the ancient furnaces of lignite still breathe their grey refusal to yield. The grid pulls power from every quarter, a taut wire humming between abundance and hunger.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.6 GW
Solar
58.3 GW
Total generation
-3.4 GW
Net import
107.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49.0% / 194.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
199
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 33.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland, their surfaces catching bright but hazy mid-morning light filtered through partial cloud. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that drift across the partly cloudy sky. Natural gas 5.1 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the gas units as a single large boiler house with a squat smokestack and coal conveyor belt. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest steam vent. Wind onshore 1.8 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a far-off hazy horizon line. Hydro 1.7 GW is a small dam and spillway nestled in a valley at the far right edge. The sky is a complex patchwork of cumulus clouds covering roughly half the dome, with bright June sunlight breaking through in wide shafts that illuminate the solar fields — the atmosphere feels slightly heavy and warm, hinting at the high electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf frame the foreground; temperature suggests warm air with a slight shimmer above the fields. Time is 09:00 Berlin, full mid-morning daylight with the sun moderately elevated in the east-southeast. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower rib is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 June 2026, 09:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-22T07:20 UTC · Download image