Grid Poet — 29 June 2026, 18:00
Solar and brown coal lead domestic generation while 20 GW of net imports fill a large evening demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm summer evening, German domestic generation of 40.4 GW falls well short of 60.5 GW consumption, requiring approximately 20.1 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 62.6% of domestic generation, led by solar at 12.9 GW — still producing solidly despite 67% cloud cover — and onshore wind at 6.2 GW. Brown coal remains the largest single thermal source at 7.9 GW, with hard coal at 3.7 GW and gas at 3.5 GW providing additional baseload and flexibility. The day-ahead price of 134.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and the need for substantial cross-border procurement during a period of elevated summer-evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun descends through veiled and hazy skies, its golden panels still ablaze, while lignite towers exhale their ancient breath into the gap the wind cannot yet close. Twenty gigawatts cross the borders like silent rivers, filling the void between what the land gives and what the cities demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 32%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
63%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.9 GW
Solar
40.4 GW
Total generation
20.1 GW
Net import
134.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.0°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
67.0% / 192.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
272
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 12.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, still catching diffused late-evening light. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the sky, beside conveyor belts and open-pit terraces. Onshore wind 6.2 GW spans the centre-left as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single squat smokestack. Hard coal 3.7 GW sits near the brown coal complex as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and twin stacks. Natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a horizontal heat recovery unit. Hydro 1.8 GW appears in the far background as a concrete dam set into a forested valley. Offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely visible on the far horizon as a few tiny turbines above a sliver of sea. The time is 18:00 in late June — dusk approaching but not yet arrived: the sun is low on the western horizon, casting a warm amber-orange glow across the lower sky, while the upper sky is muted and hazy with 67% cloud cover in layered alto-stratus formations. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a thick, humid summer haze presses down on the landscape. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, tall grasses and wildflowers in the foreground. The scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 29 June 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-29T16:20 UTC · Download image