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Grid Poet — 28 June 2026, 07:00
Solar, onshore wind, and brown coal dominate as overcast skies and morning demand drive 5.6 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 07:00 on a warm late-June morning, Germany draws 43.8 GW against 38.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 5.6 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 70.2% of domestic supply, led by solar at 12.1 GW despite 83% cloud cover—diffuse radiation still delivers meaningful output at this time of year—and onshore wind at 8.7 GW under light winds of 3.6 km/h, suggesting residual output from overnight conditions. Brown coal remains the largest single thermal block at 7.4 GW, a typical baseload posture, with hard coal at 1.6 GW and gas at 2.3 GW providing additional dispatchable capacity. The day-ahead price of 104.4 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the import requirement and the activation of higher-marginal-cost thermal units during the morning demand ramp.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sullen canopy of grey, the turbines turn their slow processional while brown coal's towers exhale their ancient breath into the dawn. The grid strains forward, reaching across borders for the power the clouds withhold.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 32%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 19%
70%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.1 GW
Solar
38.2 GW
Total generation
-5.6 GW
Net import
104.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
83.0% / 35.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 12.1 GW occupies the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hillsides, their surfaces reflecting only pale diffuse light under heavy overcast; brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base; onshore wind 8.7 GW fills the centre-right middle ground as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling farmland, rotors turning slowly; biomass 3.8 GW appears in the centre-left as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rectangular stack and woodchip storage yard; natural gas 2.3 GW sits near the centre as two compact CCGT units with slim single exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer; hard coal 1.6 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square stack and coal pile behind the brown coal complex; hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway in the far left background nestled in a forested valley; offshore wind 0.7 GW is barely visible as a few distant turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is early dawn at 07:00 in late June—pale blue-grey pre-dawn light breaking from the east at low angle, no direct sun visible, the heavy 83% cloud cover forming an oppressive low ceiling of layered stratus in slate and pewter tones suggesting the high electricity price. The landscape is lush summer green at 22.8°C with tall grasses, wildflowers, and deciduous trees in full canopy. Air is still, barely any motion in the vegetation due to 3.6 km/h wind. Atmospheric haze softens the distance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial sublime—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro in the cloud formations, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's grid pattern. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 June 2026, 07:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-28T05:20 UTC · Download image