Grid Poet — 1 July 2026, 17:00
Solar leads at 22.4 GW with coal and gas backstopping the evening ramp as net imports cover an 8.8 GW shortfall.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a warm summer evening, solar generation remains the dominant source at 22.4 GW, benefiting from strong direct irradiation of 487 W/m² under mostly clear skies. Wind contributes a combined 7.4 GW, modest for installed capacity but consistent with the moderate 15.8 km/h surface winds. The 8.8 GW gap between domestic generation of 49.5 GW and consumption of 58.3 GW is covered by net imports. Thermal baseload from brown coal (6.1 GW), hard coal (3.9 GW), and natural gas (4.1 GW) totaling 14.1 GW reflects firm dispatch into the early evening ramp, consistent with the elevated day-ahead price of 101.4 EUR/MWh as the system anticipates the approaching solar decline.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun still blazes on a million silicon faces, gilding the Thuringian hills in amber defiance of the coming dusk. Below, coal towers exhale their ancient breath while turbines turn lazily, and the grid draws hungrily from every horizon to feed the summer evening's thirst.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 45%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 12%
72%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.4 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
8.8 GW
Net import
101.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.1°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
26.0% / 487.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
200
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.4 GW dominates the right half and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland, catching intense late-afternoon light; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears just left of centre as a large coal-fired power station with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks and a modest heat shimmer; wind onshore 7.0 GW fills the distant right horizon as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-free tubular towers turning slowly in moderate wind; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by two small turbines barely visible on the far horizon; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a rounded silo and a single low stack near the centre; hydro 2.0 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground stream. The sky is a dusk scene at 17:00 in July — the sun is lowering toward the western horizon, casting long warm golden-orange light across the landscape, the upper sky still vivid blue with only 26% cloud cover rendered as thin cirrus wisps. The atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, hazy quality reflecting the high electricity price. Lush midsummer vegetation — tall green wheat, full-canopy deciduous trees — corresponds to 25°C warmth. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro from the low sun, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 1 July 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-01T15:20 UTC · Download image