Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 19:00
Strong onshore wind dominates at 31.3 GW; overcast skies limit fading solar; 3.6 GW net imports bridge the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 19:00 on a summer evening, wind generation dominates the German grid at 36.8 GW combined (onshore 31.3 GW, offshore 5.5 GW), driven by sustained winds of 23.9 km/h. Solar contributes a declining 7.2 GW under heavy overcast (94% cloud cover, only 59 W/m² direct radiation), consistent with late-evening angles in early July. Domestic generation totals 55.3 GW against 58.9 GW consumption, requiring approximately 3.6 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 90.5 EUR/MWh is moderately elevated, reflecting the import requirement and evening demand peak despite the high 89.6% renewable share; thermal plants (brown coal 2.6 GW, natural gas 1.9 GW, hard coal 1.3 GW) provide baseload and flexibility margins.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the sullen dusk, their iron hymn drowning the last ember of a sun too shy to shine. Below, the old furnaces of lignite smolder like stubborn memories, refusing to yield the stage to the wind's relentless choir.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 13%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
36.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.2 GW
Solar
55.3 GW
Total generation
3.6 GW
Net import
90.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 59.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 31.3 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade wind turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind. Wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant line of taller offshore turbines visible on a grey-green horizon sea glimpsed through a valley gap at far right. Solar 7.2 GW occupies a modest foreground strip at lower-left as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on a meadow, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the heavy overcast. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power plant with a squat industrial building, conveyor belts, and a single moderate smokestack with faint white exhaust. Brown coal 2.6 GW sits at the left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, adjacent to a lignite strip mine scar in the earth. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and clean lines, placed between the cooling towers and the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller classical power station with a rectangular chimney and thin grey smoke, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.9 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a forested ravine at far left. The sky is dusk at 19:00 in Berlin: a narrow band of warm orange-red light clings to the lower horizon in the west, rapidly fading upward into deep slate-grey and purple-grey cloud banks covering 94% of the sky, heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price. The landscape is lush midsummer — full green deciduous trees, tall grass swaying hard in the wind, wildflowers. The atmosphere is humid, moody, with a sense of pressure. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the fading horizon light and the darkening overcast, atmospheric depth with haze between turbine rows, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, blade, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 19:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T17:20 UTC · Download image