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Grid Poet — 7 June 2026, 13:00
Solar at 36 GW and wind at 16 GW drive 11.8 GW net exports and deeply negative prices at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 36.0 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from strong diffuse radiation and long June daylight hours. Combined with 16.2 GW of wind (13.9 onshore, 2.3 offshore), renewables supply 93.7% of generation. The system produces 11.8 GW beyond domestic consumption, resulting in net exports of approximately that magnitude, which is reflected in a day-ahead price of −35.9 EUR/MWh — a typical outcome during midday summer oversupply events. Dispatchable thermal generation is largely suppressed, with gas at 1.5 GW and hard coal at just 0.2 GW, though brown coal maintains a 2.2 GW baseload floor consistent with contractual and technical inflexibility.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun, veiled in cloud, floods the land with invisible bounty until the grid overflows and pays the world to drink. Turbines hum their tireless hymn across the greening hills, while ancient coal-fires flicker low, stubborn embers refusing their twilight.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
94%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.0 GW
Solar
60.7 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
-35.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 127.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.0 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer fields under a bright but fully overcast white-grey sky — diffuse midday light at 13:00, no direct sun but strong ambient illumination. Wind onshore 13.9 GW fills the middle distance and right half as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across gentle hills with lush June vegetation. Wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines visible on a distant grey horizon line suggesting the North Sea coast. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as two modest wood-clad biomass CHP plants with low stacks emitting thin white steam, nestled among trees at the left-centre. Brown coal 2.2 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a low-slung lignite power station with conveyor belts. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and low-head run-of-river turbine house in the lower left. The atmosphere is calm, airy, and open — the negative price conveyed by a serene expansiveness and a sense of overabundance, light flooding everywhere. Temperature 18°C shown through lush deciduous trees in full green leaf, wildflowers in meadows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of greens, silvers, and soft whites, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze toward the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's concrete texture. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 June 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-07T11:20 UTC · Download image