Grid Poet — 14 September 2026, 14:00
Solar leads at 33.6 GW but calm winds force 18.3 GW of thermal generation, pushing prices to 161 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 33.6 GW despite 74% cloud cover, reflecting the strong diffuse and partial direct irradiance typical of a mid-September early afternoon; however, wind generation is notably weak at just 2.2 GW combined, consistent with the calm 5.7 km/h surface winds. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 8.8 GW, hard coal at 4.2 GW, and natural gas at 5.3 GW collectively providing 18.3 GW — roughly 31% of total generation — filling the gap left by absent wind. The system is essentially balanced with a marginal net import of approximately 0.2 GW, indicating domestic supply nearly but not quite meeting the 59.0 GW demand. The day-ahead price of 161.4 EUR/MWh is elevated, reflecting the costly thermal dispatch required to compensate for the wind shortfall and suggesting tight merit-order conditions despite high solar output.
Grid poem Claude AI
A veiled sun pours gold through gauze while smokestacks breathe their ancient coal-dark hymns across the plain. The wind has fled, and fire fills the silence where turning blades should sing.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 57%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.6 GW
Solar
58.8 GW
Total generation
0.2 GW
Net import
161.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
74.0% / 182.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
220
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.6 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling late-summer farmland, angled southward, catching diffuse silvery light through a hazy overcast; brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky; natural gas 5.3 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW sits behind the gas plant as a blocky station with a single large smokestack trailing grey-brown exhaust; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a green-domed digester tank and short flue near the centre; wind onshore 1.5 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.7 GW is a faint line of turbines on a far hazy horizon; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir in a stream in the lower right corner. The sky is 74% covered with layered stratocumulus in grey and silver, but the early-afternoon September sun at 14:00 pushes moderate brightness through gaps, casting soft diffuse shadows with muted golden tones. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — thick humid haze reflecting the high electricity price — pressing down over the landscape. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show early autumn yellowing at the edges of birch and linden trees. The air is still, no leaf or blade stirs. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy industrial horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 September 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-14T12:20 UTC · Download image