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Grid Poet — 28 June 2026, 15:00
Solar at 40 GW overwhelms demand under clear 34°C skies, driving 10 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 40.0 GW under cloudless skies and 715 W/m² direct irradiance, constituting roughly 70% of total generation and driving the renewable share to 90.0%. With consumption at 47.1 GW against 57.2 GW of total generation, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 10.0 GW, consistent with the near-zero day-ahead price of 1.6 EUR/MWh. Brown coal baseload persists at 3.6 GW alongside 1.5 GW of natural gas, likely reflecting contractual and must-run constraints rather than economic dispatch at this price level. Wind contribution is modest at 6.6 GW combined, consistent with the light 10.6 km/h winds observed across central Germany.
Grid poem Claude AI
A furnace sun commands the sky and floods the panels with relentless gold, drowning the price of power to nearly nothing. Beneath that blinding reign, the old brown towers still breathe their ancient steam, stubborn ghosts refusing to yield the stage.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
6.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.0 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
+10.0 GW
Net export
1.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.4°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 715.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.0 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland in the centre and right of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting fiercely under a blazing midday sun; brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the sky; wind onshore 5.3 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge behind the solar field, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right; biomass 3.5 GW is depicted as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a single short stack and thin exhaust near the cooling towers; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack beside the biomass unit; hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small concrete weir and powerhouse on a stream in the foreground; hard coal 0.6 GW is a small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The time is 3 PM on a scorching summer day — the light is intense, high, and slightly white-hot, casting short shadows; the sky is entirely cloudless, a washed-out pale blue near the horizon deepening to cobalt overhead, conveying oppressive heat; the landscape is dry late-June German farmland with golden-green fields and dusty paths; vegetation is lush but heat-stressed, with some wilting leaves on linden trees lining a country road. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the rock-bottom electricity price — no tension, no drama, just the vast quiet hum of solar abundance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel row, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-28T13:20 UTC · Download image