🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 9 June 2026, 05:00
Wind leads at 21.6 GW but 7.7 GW net imports needed under full overcast with negligible solar at pre-dawn.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 05:00 on a fully overcast June morning, wind generation dominates the mix at 21.6 GW combined (onshore 17.6, offshore 4.0), providing the bulk of Germany's 67.4% renewable share. Solar is negligible at 0.4 GW given the pre-dawn hour and complete cloud cover. Brown coal contributes a significant 7.2 GW baseload, with hard coal at 2.3 GW and natural gas at 3.8 GW filling the thermal complement. Domestic generation of 40.8 GW falls short of the 48.5 GW consumption, requiring approximately 7.7 GW of net imports; this shortfall, combined with the overcast conditions suppressing any solar ramp, supports the relatively elevated day-ahead price of 115.8 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden shroud of cloud the turbines churn in tireless chorus, their pale blades carving darkness into light while coal towers exhale white plumes into the grey. The grid reaches across borders with open hands, drawing current from distant dawn to feed a nation stirring from sleep.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
67%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-7.7 GW
Net import
115.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into deep atmospheric perspective; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea; brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with slim exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt beside a dark coal heap, just left of centre; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, modest steam rising; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming white spillway in the left foreground beside a river; solar 0.4 GW is represented by a barely visible small rooftop array on a farmhouse, panels dark and unlit. Time is 05:00 early June pre-dawn: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones, only cold ambient half-light; 100% cloud cover forms a thick unbroken stratus ceiling pressing low and oppressive, conveying the high electricity price atmosphere. Lush mid-June vegetation — tall green grass, leafy deciduous trees — glistens with morning dew. A few sodium-orange streetlights glow along a road in the foreground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, moody chiaroscuro between the cold pre-dawn sky and warm industrial light, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower texture, and power-line insulator. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 June 2026, 05:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-09T03:20 UTC · Download image