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Grid Poet — 28 June 2026, 12:00
Solar at 48.8 GW drives 14.7 GW net export and near-zero prices on a hot summer midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 48.8 GW, accounting for 75% of total output on a hot midsummer day with 502 W/m² direct irradiation despite partial cloud cover. Wind contributes a modest 4.7 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the light 9.2 km/h winds. Thermal baseload from brown coal (3.7 GW), hard coal (1.3 GW), and natural gas (1.5 GW) remains online despite the massive renewable surplus, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service commitments. With consumption at 50.2 GW and generation at 64.9 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 14.7 GW, driving the day-ahead price to effectively zero — a routine midday outcome in high-solar summer conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours golden fire across ten million crystalline faces, drowning the grid in light it cannot hold. The market price collapses to nothing, and the surplus spills across the borders like a river breaching its banks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.8 GW
Solar
64.9 GW
Total generation
+14.7 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
52.0% / 502.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.8 GW dominates the scene as a vast sea of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering nearly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 3.7 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 3.5 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a wood-chip-fed power station with a squat industrial chimney and conveyor belts. Wind onshore 3.3 GW stands as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 1.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a modest coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and a short smokestack beside the gas plant. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a few turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the right edge. Full midday summer daylight, a high sun blazing through broken cumulus clouds — roughly half the sky is blue, half cloud, with strong direct sunlight casting sharp shadows. The air shimmers with 30°C heat; lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf line the edges of fields; wildflowers dot the meadows. The atmosphere is bright and calm, reflecting the zero electricity price — open luminous sky, no oppressive haze. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to distant blue hills — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, lattice towers, panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic curvature, steam condensation physics. The scene feels like a masterwork canvas of an industrial pastoral landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 June 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-28T10:20 UTC · Download image