🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 24 June 2026, 17:00
Solar leads at 31.2 GW under extreme heat, but dead-calm wind and high demand force coal and imports upward.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 31.2 GW under clear skies and intense direct radiation of 540 W/m², though it is now past peak and beginning its late-afternoon decline at 17:00. Wind contributes a negligible 1.0 GW combined, reflecting near-calm conditions at 5.2 km/h, which forces substantial thermal baseload: brown coal at 7.8 GW, hard coal at 3.4 GW, and natural gas at 3.4 GW together provide 14.6 GW. Domestic generation falls 5.0 GW short of the 57.2 GW consumption level, implying a net import of approximately 5.0 GW — consistent with the elevated day-ahead price of 129.7 EUR/MWh driven by the combination of high cooling-related demand at 32.9 °C and declining solar output approaching evening. The 72.1% renewable share remains high but will erode quickly over the next two hours as solar fades and thermal and import dependence increases.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours gold across a million glinting panels, yet the still air withholds the wind's reprieve. Beneath the copper sky, ancient coal towers exhale their patient plumes, filling the silence the turbines leave.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
1.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.2 GW
Solar
52.2 GW
Total generation
-4.9 GW
Net import
129.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 540.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
203
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across golden-brown summer farmland, angled toward a fierce low sun; brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the hazy sky; hard coal 3.4 GW appears as a single dark power station with rectangular stacks and conveyor belts beside a coal yard, adjacent to the lignite plant; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with slender silver exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW sits as a modest wood-chip fired plant with a green-roofed boiler hall and a single chimney trailing pale smoke; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in a low river valley in the mid-distance; wind onshore 0.8 GW shows as two or three idle-looking three-blade turbines on distant hills, rotors barely turning. The sky is a dusk transition at 17:00 Berlin time — the sun hangs low in the west, casting intense orange-amber light across the landscape, the upper sky fading from washed blue to warm apricot near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, shimmering with 33°C heat haze — parched grass, wilting crops, dust hanging in the still air. No wind stirs the landscape. A faint industrial haze blurs the horizon where the coal towers stand. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous golden-hour chiaroscuro — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower flute, and exhaust stack. The composition evokes both Caspar David Friedrich's sublime horizons and Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 June 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-24T15:20 UTC · Download image