Grid Poet — 28 July 2026, 18:00
Solar leads at 18.7 GW but 15.3 GW net imports needed as light winds and high demand drive prices to 157 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm summer evening, solar remains the dominant source at 18.7 GW, benefiting from strong direct radiation and mostly clear skies, though output is declining from its midday peak. Wind generation is subdued at 6.3 GW combined, consistent with light winds of 4.1 km/h across central Germany. Lignite provides a substantial 6.2 GW baseload, supplemented by 2.5 GW hard coal and 2.4 GW gas, reflecting the need to cover a 15.3 GW residual load driven by high summer demand of 56.4 GW. Domestic generation falls 15.3 GW short of consumption, indicating net imports of approximately 15.3 GW — a significant draw likely sourced from neighboring markets, which alongside strong thermal dispatch explains the elevated day-ahead price of 157 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
The golden sun still pours its molten light across a million panels, yet the grid thirsts for more than heaven offers. Below the shimmering haze, brown towers breathe their ancient carbon breath to fill the widening gap between desire and sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 45%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
6.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.7 GW
Solar
41.1 GW
Total generation
15.3 GW
Net import
157.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
18.0% / 389.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
200
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.7 GW dominates the right half and centre of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green farmland, angled toward a low western sun; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting tall white-grey steam plumes against the sky; wind onshore 3.4 GW appears as a modest row of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on distant hills, blades barely turning in still air; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a line of turbines on a hazy horizon beyond a river estuary; biomass 3.9 GW is depicted as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rounded silo, wood-chip conveyor, and a single low stack with thin white exhaust; hard coal 2.5 GW shows as a coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt feeding from a dark fuel pile, a single tall chimney with faint emissions; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a sleek single exhaust stack and a small vapour trail beside the coal plant; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming white water in the foreground valley. The lighting is late-evening dusk at 18:00 in July — the sun is low in the west-northwest, casting long warm golden-orange light across the landscape, sky above transitioning from pale blue to deeper blue overhead, a few thin high cirrus clouds catching golden light, 18% cloud cover leaving most of the sky open. The air is heavy and hazy with summer warmth at 26°C, lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses tall and golden-tipped. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, a faint amber-brown industrial haze hanging near the thermal plants, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 July 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-28T16:20 UTC · Download image