Grid Poet — 12 July 2026, 18:00
Solar at 19.9 GW and wind at 11.8 GW dominate, but 7.4 GW net imports cover a hot evening's demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a hot summer evening, German generation totals 41.5 GW against 48.9 GW consumption, requiring approximately 7.4 GW of net imports. Solar remains the dominant source at 19.9 GW despite the late hour, benefiting from clear skies and 405 W/m² direct irradiation on the longest days of the year. Combined wind generation contributes 11.8 GW, while brown coal provides 3.2 GW of baseload and biomass adds 3.6 GW. The day-ahead price of 93.4 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the import requirement and strong cooling demand at 29 °C, though gas dispatch remains restrained at just 1.4 GW, suggesting cross-border capacity is covering the gap more economically than additional thermal ramp-up.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun still blazes at the zenith of evening, its golden panels drinking the last fierce light while turbines turn lazily in the warm breeze. Beneath it all, ancient lignite smolders on, a dark heartbeat beneath a shining skin.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 48%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
11.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
41.5 GW
Total generation
7.4 GW
Net import
93.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.0°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 405.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across golden-green summer farmland, angled toward the still-intense western sun. Wind onshore 8.7 GW fills the centre-left background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning moderately in the warm breeze across rolling hills. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears on the far left horizon as a line of turbines rising from a hazy strip of distant sea. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and low exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour, nestled among trees at centre-left. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising against the sky, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and excavation pit. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal facility. The lighting is late dusk at 18:00 in July: the sun is still above the horizon but low in the west, casting long warm golden-orange light across the landscape, with deep blue sky overhead fading to amber near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — the hot 29°C air creates visible heat shimmer above the solar panels and parched summer fields. Lush but heat-stressed green vegetation, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze near the horizon — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 July 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-12T16:20 UTC · Download image