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Grid Poet — 9 June 2026, 12:00
Solar at 30.6 GW and wind at 22.2 GW drive 89.6% renewable share, enabling 3.6 GW net export at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 9 June 2026, the German grid is generating 65.0 GW against a consumption of 61.4 GW, yielding a net export position of 3.6 GW. Solar contributes 30.6 GW despite 92% cloud cover, benefiting from long June daylight and high diffuse irradiance; combined with 22.2 GW of wind (18.8 onshore, 3.4 offshore), renewables reach 89.6% of generation. Thermal baseload remains modest, with brown coal at 4.0 GW providing the bulk of conventional output while natural gas and hard coal together contribute only 2.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 25.2 EUR/MWh reflects comfortable supply conditions and the modest export volume, consistent with a midday renewable-dominated hour in early summer.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver veil the sun still pours its quiet gold through ten million crystalline eyes, while turbines trace slow hymns across the Thuringian hills. The old coal towers exhale their last warm breath into a world that barely needs them now.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 47%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
22.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.6 GW
Solar
65.0 GW
Total generation
+3.6 GW
Net export
25.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 233.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.6 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, occupying nearly half the canvas. Wind onshore 18.8 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, spanning a wide arc across the horizon. Wind offshore 3.4 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on a distant hazy North Sea horizon glimpsed through a gap between hills. Brown coal 4.0 GW stands at the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Biomass 3.7 GW sits to the left-centre as a compact wood-chip-fed power station with a single modest smokestack and stacked timber logs. Hydro 1.7 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and penstock nestled in a wooded valley at right. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a sleek CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions, tucked behind the solar fields. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a small traditional power station with a dark brick chimney at the far edge. Time is noon: full diffuse daylight under a heavy 92% overcast sky — silvery-white cloud ceiling with no direct sun, yet the landscape is brightly and evenly illuminated with soft shadowless light. Temperature 16.3°C: lush early-summer green meadows, wildflowers, deciduous trees in full leaf. Wind 15.2 km/h: grasses bend gently, turbine blades rotating at moderate pace. Low electricity price atmosphere: the scene feels calm, open, and spacious. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with misty distances, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 June 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-09T10:20 UTC · Download image