Grid Poet — 10 September 2026, 16:00
Solar leads at 26.3 GW but a 9.3 GW net import fills the gap left by weak wind and strong demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar generation at 26.3 GW dominates the mix despite 79% cloud cover, consistent with late-afternoon September conditions where diffuse radiation still drives substantial PV output. Wind contributes only 4.9 GW combined (onshore 3.5, offshore 1.4), reflecting the very light 4.5 km/h surface winds. Brown coal at 6.3 GW and hard coal at 3.8 GW provide significant baseload, while gas runs at a modest 1.4 GW, together filling the thermal generation role necessitated by the 9.3 GW gap between domestic generation (47.5 GW) and consumption (56.8 GW), with the remaining shortfall covered by net imports of approximately 9.3 GW. The day-ahead price of 149.5 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a late-summer afternoon where imports are required and thermal units are dispatched to meet demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A copper sun presses through gauze-grey clouds, its last golden voltage pouring across ten million panels while brown towers exhale ancient carbon into the haze. The grid groans beneath the weight of evening's approach, summoning power from beyond the borders to keep the nation's pulse alive.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
76%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.3 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
9.3 GW
Net import
149.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
79.0% / 130.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
184
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-black surfaces catching diffuse afternoon light; brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky; hard coal 3.8 GW sits left of centre as a dark industrial power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts carrying black fuel; wind onshore 3.5 GW appears as a modest row of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a conical fuel silo and low exhaust stack amid trees in the centre-left midground; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon beyond a river in the far distance; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a small compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack near the coal station; hydro 1.1 GW is a modest dam with spillway tucked into a forested valley at far left. The sky is 79% overcast with layered grey-white clouds, but direct sunlight at 130 W/m² breaks through in shafts, casting warm amber-toned late-afternoon light across the panels — it is 4 PM in September, full daylight but muted and heavy, with a slightly oppressive atmospheric weight reflecting the high electricity price. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to fade, temperature mild at 18°C, leaves on deciduous trees full but hinting at autumn. A network of high-voltage transmission pylons threads across the entire panorama, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers, luminous treatment of cloud edges where sunlight penetrates, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 September 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-10T14:20 UTC · Download image