Grid Poet — 29 June 2026, 16:00
Solar leads at 25.9 GW under heavy overcast; brown coal and imports fill a 9.1 GW supply gap at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 25.9 GW despite 96% cloud cover, reflecting the long June day and high diffuse irradiance still reaching panels at 4 PM. Combined renewables supply 38.2 GW (77.4% share), but domestic generation totals only 49.4 GW against 58.5 GW consumption, requiring approximately 9.1 GW of net imports. Brown coal remains firmly dispatched at 6.1 GW alongside 2.6 GW hard coal and 2.5 GW gas, consistent with the elevated day-ahead price of 103.7 EUR/MWh reflecting the import requirement and thermal plant marginal costs. The price level is seasonally high for a summer afternoon but coherent with the gap between renewable output and demand, driven in part by moderate air-conditioning loads at 24.3 °C and weak onshore wind at 6.9 km/h.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden canopy the sun still presses through, a diffuse gold that lights ten million panels while coal towers exhale their ancient debt into the haze. The grid stretches hungry beyond what the land can give, and from across the borders, invisible rivers of electrons flow inward to fill the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
49.4 GW
Total generation
9.1 GW
Net import
103.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 266.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.9 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling summer farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light. Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising and merging with the overcast sky, beside a conveyor belt feeding raw lignite. Wind onshore 6.3 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-and-tubular towers along a ridge in the mid-left, blades turning very slowly in the faint breeze. Hard coal 2.6 GW shows as a single large coal plant with a tall rectangular stack and smaller cooling tower to the far left. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and slim turbine hall near centre-left. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a short chimney and stacked timber logs beside it, near centre. Hydro 1.7 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible in the far background valley. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely suggested as tiny white turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is 96% overcast — a heavy, uniform blanket of warm grey stratus clouds pressing low, yet with a bright diffuse glow behind them from the high June afternoon sun at 4 PM, casting flat shadowless daylight across the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, fitting the 103.7 EUR/MWh price — humid summer air, haze clinging to the cooling tower plumes. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grass, wheat fields, deciduous trees in full leaf at 24.3 °C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective, warm ochre and grey tones, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.
Grid data: 29 June 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-29T14:20 UTC · Download image