Grid Poet — 11 July 2026, 18:00
Solar dominates at 20.3 GW under clear skies, but 9.6 GW net imports cover strong summer evening demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a clear midsummer evening, solar remains the dominant source at 20.3 GW, benefiting from 435 W/m² direct radiation under cloudless skies and 27.4 °C temperatures that sustain air-conditioning load. Wind contributes a modest 6.9 GW combined (6.3 onshore, 0.6 offshore), consistent with the light 9.2 km/h winds. Thermal generation totals 9.9 GW, with brown coal at 3.5 GW providing the largest baseload fossil share, supplemented by biomass (3.7 GW), natural gas (1.7 GW), and hard coal (1.0 GW). Domestic generation of 38.3 GW falls 9.6 GW short of 47.9 GW consumption, requiring net imports of approximately 9.6 GW — reflected in the elevated day-ahead price of 120.4 EUR/MWh, which is consistent with a high-demand summer evening where solar output is beginning its decline toward sunset and import flows are clearing at premium levels.
Grid poem Claude AI
The last gold of a July sun pours over silicon fields, but the grid's hunger outpaces the light — and from across the borders, borrowed electrons rush in like rivers answering a distant sea. Coal towers exhale their ancient breath into a copper sky, sentinels of an age that lingers still.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 53%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.3 GW
Solar
38.3 GW
Total generation
9.6 GW
Net import
120.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 435.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
116
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across golden-green summer farmland, angled toward the low western sun; wind onshore 6.3 GW appears as a line of slowly turning three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a gentle ridge in the centre-right; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.7 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a wood-chip-fed facility with a modest stack and wispy grey exhaust; natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and shimmering heat haze near the left-centre; hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a smaller traditional power station with a single stack behind the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with a narrow cascade in the far left background; wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is a dusk transition at 18:00 in July: the sun sits low in the west, casting long orange-amber light across the landscape, the upper sky still a vivid cerulean blue shading to warm peach and copper near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the beauty — a slight haze from the 27.4 °C heat and the high electricity price lending a tense, saturated quality to the light. Lush midsummer vegetation — tall grass, full-canopy deciduous trees — frames the foreground. 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: rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 July 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-11T16:20 UTC · Download image