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Grid Poet — 24 June 2026, 19:00
Brown coal, gas, and fading solar anchor a 58.9 GW demand peak as near-zero wind forces heavy imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 19:00 on a hot midsummer evening, German consumption stands at 58.9 GW against domestic generation of only 35.9 GW, requiring approximately 23.0 GW of net imports. Solar is still contributing 9.4 GW from low-angle late-afternoon irradiance, but wind output is exceptionally weak at 1.6 GW combined, reflecting near-calm conditions at 7.8 km/h. Brown coal leads thermal generation at 8.4 GW, supplemented by 6.8 GW of natural gas and 4.0 GW of hard coal, together providing the bulk of dispatchable supply. The day-ahead price of 455.1 EUR/MWh reflects the severe supply tightness driven by the combination of a summer heat-related demand peak and minimal wind availability, drawing heavily on imports and high-marginal-cost generation.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun hangs low and molten over silent turbine blades, while furnaces of lignite roar to fill the gap the wind betrayed. A nation's hunger blazes bright — the meter spins, the price ignites.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 26%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 23%
47%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.4 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-23.0 GW
Net import
455.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 275.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.4 GW dominates the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; solar 9.4 GW fills the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels catching the last golden-orange rays of the low sun; natural gas 6.8 GW occupies the centre-right as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW appears behind the gas plant as a dark industrial block with conveyor belts and a single squat smokestack; biomass 3.9 GW sits as a modest wood-chip-fired facility with a rounded silo and gentle smoke; hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with white water spilling in the right foreground; wind onshore 1.3 GW appears as two distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a single tiny turbine silhouette on a hazy far horizon. The scene is set at 19:00 in late June — a dusk transition with the sun very low on the western horizon casting deep orange-amber light across the landscape, the sky above transitioning from warm gold near the horizon to deepening blue overhead. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy from extreme 31.6°C heat — shimmering heat distortion rises from the parched ground. Vegetation is lush full-summer green but wilting slightly in the heat. The air is nearly still, no motion in grasses or leaves. The overwhelming thermal atmosphere and brooding stillness convey the tension of extreme prices and supply scarcity. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective with industrial haze fading into luminous distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 June 2026, 19:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-24T17:20 UTC · Download image