Grid Poet — 4 July 2026, 18:00
Wind dominates at 24.1 GW with 15 GW fading solar; 91.8% renewable share at evening peak demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a summer evening, German renewables supply 91.8% of a 49.7 GW load, with wind providing the backbone at 24.1 GW combined onshore and offshore, while solar contributes 15.0 GW despite heavy cloud cover—consistent with diffuse irradiance still available at this hour in early July. A net import of approximately 1.2 GW covers the modest gap between 48.5 GW domestic generation and consumption. Brown coal maintains a 2.1 GW baseload floor, with natural gas at 1.6 GW likely providing flexible balancing; hard coal is essentially marginal at 0.3 GW. The day-ahead price of 57.7 EUR/MWh is moderate and reflects the small residual load and need for limited thermal and import support despite the dominant renewable share.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind commands the twilight grid, its turbines singing across a dimming plain where coal still breathes in quiet embers. Even as the sun surrenders to the cloud-veiled horizon, its diffuse light lingers on a million panels—an empire of electrons refusing to sleep.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 31%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.0 GW
Solar
48.5 GW
Total generation
1.2 GW
Net import
57.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
87.0% / 34.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far-right background as a row of offshore turbines on a hazy sea horizon. Solar 15.0 GW fills the centre-left foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on summer meadows, reflecting muted grey-white light under heavy overcast. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of compact biomass CHP plants with small rectangular stacks and modest white steam plumes. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin grey-white steam columns rising into the overcast sky. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and transparent heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and biomass facilities. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley behind the wind turbines. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a barely visible single small stack at the far left edge, nearly dormant. The sky: 87% cloud cover at 18:00 Berlin summer time means a dusk scene with the sun very low, a narrow band of warm orange-red light on the lower western horizon bleeding through thick stratocumulus clouds, the upper sky darkening to slate grey and deep blue-grey. Diffuse warm light catches the landscape but no direct sunbeams. Temperature 23.5°C: lush full-summer vegetation, deep green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass, wildflowers. The atmosphere is slightly hazy and humid, not oppressive but substantial—a working summer evening. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic cloud formations, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 July 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-04T16:20 UTC · Download image