Grid Poet — 30 June 2026, 18:00
Solar, brown coal, and gas lead domestic generation while 19.9 GW of net imports fill the evening demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm summer evening, German domestic generation reaches 40.7 GW against consumption of 60.6 GW, resulting in a net import of 19.9 GW. Solar contributes 12.8 GW as panels capture late-afternoon radiation through partially broken cloud, while brown coal provides a substantial 9.3 GW baseload and natural gas adds 5.4 GW of flexible mid-merit output. Despite a renewable share of 55.5%, the day-ahead price sits at 0.0 EUR/MWh — an unusual combination likely reflecting oversupply in the broader European market or negative pricing dynamics from high renewable feed-in across neighboring systems, even as Germany itself draws heavily on imports to meet elevated summer-evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun descends through hazy curtains while ancient lignite fires still breathe below, and across the borders an invisible river of electrons pours into a land whose hunger outpaces its own light. The price reads zero, as though the market itself has forgotten what power costs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 32%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
56%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.8 GW
Solar
40.7 GW
Total generation
19.9 GW
Net import
Day-ahead price
26.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
60.0% / 177.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
316
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dusky sky; solar 12.8 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the low western sun, catching warm golden-orange light; natural gas 5.4 GW appears centre-left as two sleek CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.4 GW sits behind the lignite complex as a smaller conventional station with twin chimneys and coal conveyors; wind onshore 3.8 GW is rendered as a scattered line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle green hills to the far right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-clad biomass plants with short stacks trailing wispy grey smoke near the turbines; hydro 1.8 GW is a small concrete dam and reservoir tucked into a forested valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a faint trio of turbines on a distant hazy horizon line. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in late June — the sun is still above the horizon but low, casting long amber-gold light across the landscape; the upper sky transitions from warm orange near the horizon through soft peach to a pale blue overhead; scattered cumulus clouds at 60% coverage are lit underneath in rose and copper. The temperature is 26°C — lush dark-green deciduous trees in full summer foliage, dry golden grasses in the foreground, heat haze shimmering above the coal complex. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, a spacious and luminous evening. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue-violet distances, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel array, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 30 June 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-30T16:20 UTC · Download image