Grid Poet — 13 July 2026, 16:00
Solar provides 36.2 GW under hazy skies; 30 °C heat drives 56.7 GW demand requiring 3.4 GW net imports.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 36.2 GW despite 99% cloud cover, consistent with high diffuse radiation and a reported direct normal irradiance of 517 W/m² suggesting thin high cloud layers rather than deep convective overcast. Total domestic generation of 53.3 GW falls 3.4 GW short of the 56.7 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 3.4 GW. The residual load of 3.4 GW is modest, met by a conventional fleet of 7.0 GW comprising brown coal (4.3 GW), natural gas (1.7 GW), and hard coal (1.0 GW), reflecting summer baseload commitments and likely heat-driven demand at 30.3 °C. The day-ahead price of 90.9 EUR/MWh is elevated for a high-renewables hour, consistent with the tight supply-demand balance and cooling load from the heatwave.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a veiled and sweltering sky, a billion silicon cells drink the diffused white fire while ancient coal still breathes its dark refrain. The grid stretches taut as a wire in the heat, importing what the sun alone cannot provide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 68%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
87%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.2 GW
Solar
53.3 GW
Total generation
3.4 GW
Net import
90.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 517.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
95
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, reflecting a milky white-grey sky. Brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes into the hazy air. Wind onshore 4.3 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning lazily in light wind. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip power station with a tall stack and modest smoke column at the left-centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW sits as a modern CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a small heat shimmer, positioned between the coal towers and the biomass plant. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is visible as a distant row of turbines on a hazy horizon line far in the background. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a spillway cascading water in the far left background valley. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller conventional power station with a rectangular stack beside the brown coal complex. The time is 4 PM on a scorching July afternoon: full daylight but the sky is entirely overcast with a thin, luminous, oppressive haze — a white-grey ceiling that lets diffused sunlight through but shows no blue sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and hot, with heat shimmer rising from the parched golden-brown summer grass between the solar arrays. Vegetation is dry midsummer — yellowed fields, dusty green deciduous trees with full canopies wilting slightly. The overall mood is oppressive and tense, reflecting the high electricity price — a heavy sullen sky pressing down on an industrialized German landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and golden-brown tonal warmth, but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 July 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-13T14:20 UTC · Download image