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Grid Poet — 28 June 2026, 09:00
Solar at 33 GW drives 83.8% renewables; brown coal holds baseload; light wind and net exports of 3.5 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 33.0 GW, accounting for nearly two-thirds of total output on a warm late-June morning with partial cloud cover and 237 W/m² direct irradiance. Wind contributes a modest 5.1 GW combined (4.2 onshore, 0.9 offshore), consistent with the near-calm 2.1 km/h surface wind speed. Brown coal remains baseloaded at 5.7 GW alongside 1.7 GW of gas and 1.0 GW of hard coal, providing conventional backstop despite the high 83.8% renewable share. Germany is a net exporter of approximately 3.5 GW, and the day-ahead price of 32.8 EUR/MWh reflects comfortable supply conditions without significant downward pressure — a routine summer mid-morning state.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun floods golden watts across a continent of glass, while lignite towers exhale their ancient breath beneath the blue. A nation drinks its morning light, and still has power left to share.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
84%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.0 GW
Solar
52.0 GW
Total generation
+3.4 GW
Net export
32.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
38.0% / 237.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland in the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting in bright mid-morning sunlight. Brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky. Wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a line of eight three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a tall rectangular stack and timber storage yard. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, positioned near the coal complex. Hydro 1.6 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house along a sunlit stream in the foreground valley. Hard coal 1.0 GW shows as a smaller conventional boiler plant with a single square cooling tower beside the lignite facility. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is visible as a handful of distant turbines on the far horizon line suggesting the North Sea. The time is 09:00 on a summer morning: full warm daylight, sun from the east casting long westward shadows, sky bright blue with scattered fair-weather cumulus clouds covering roughly 38% of the dome, temperature 26.7 °C conveyed through lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, and a slight haze of summer warmth. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower reinforced-concrete ribbing, steam condensation physics. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 June 2026, 09:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-28T07:20 UTC · Download image