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Grid Poet — 25 June 2026, 17:00
Solar leads at 31 GW under extreme heat; brown coal and net imports cover the 5 GW generation shortfall.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 31.0 GW, contributing nearly 60% of total generation on a clear, hot late-June afternoon with 542 W/m² direct radiation and only 11% cloud cover. Wind output is modest at 5.5 GW combined (onshore 4.3 GW, offshore 1.2 GW), consistent with the light 7.8 km/h winds. Brown coal maintains a significant 6.1 GW baseload, complemented by 2.2 GW of natural gas and 1.7 GW of hard coal, likely dispatched in response to the elevated day-ahead price of 106.6 EUR/MWh. Domestic generation falls 5.0 GW short of the 56.9 GW consumption, requiring approximately 5.0 GW of net imports — unsurprising given the extreme heat driving cooling loads well above seasonal norms.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun presses its golden weight upon a land gasping at thirty-three degrees, while ancient lignite towers exhale their stubborn breath into a sky that refuses to darken. Five gigawatts flow inward from foreign wires, a tithe paid to the fever of summer.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
81%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.0 GW
Solar
51.9 GW
Total generation
-5.0 GW
Net import
106.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
11.0% / 542.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
142
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across sun-scorched golden farmland, glinting fiercely under intense late-afternoon sun. Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky. Wind onshore 4.3 GW appears as a line of eight three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the centre-left middle ground, their rotors barely turning in the weak breeze. Natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer near the left foreground. Hard coal 1.7 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station with a single square smokestack beside the brown coal complex. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on the far horizon where a hazy strip of sea meets the sky. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as two modest industrial facilities with green-painted silos and low chimneys amid dried-out fields in the centre. Hydro 1.8 GW is a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at far right. The sky is mostly clear with only thin wisps of cirrus (11% cloud cover), but the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and slightly hazy from the extreme 33.5°C heat. The lighting is dusk-transitional at 17:00 Berlin time: the sun is still strong but angling westward, casting long amber-orange shadows across the landscape, with the sky beginning to deepen from pale blue overhead toward a warm golden-orange glow at the western horizon. Vegetation is lush midsummer green but visibly wilting and parched from the heat wave. Transmission pylons carry high-voltage lines across the scene, symbolising import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 June 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-25T15:20 UTC · Download image