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Grid Poet — 9 June 2026, 15:00
Solar (31.9 GW) and wind (22.5 GW) drive 91% renewable share, pushing 6.9 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 15:00 on a June afternoon, the German grid is generating 65.6 GW against 58.7 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 6.9 GW. Solar dominates at 31.9 GW despite 75% cloud cover, benefiting from long June daylight hours and sufficient diffuse and direct irradiance (370 W/m² direct). Combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 22.5 GW, and together with solar, biomass, and hydro, renewables account for 91.1% of generation. The day-ahead price has collapsed to 1.5 EUR/MWh, consistent with the substantial oversupply; lignite baseload plants at 3.1 GW and hard coal at 1.0 GW remain online likely due to minimum run constraints and contractual obligations rather than economic dispatch signals.
Grid poem Claude AI
A river of light pours from silicon fields and spinning blades, drowning the ancient coal fires to embers beneath a lavish June sky. The grid exhales its bounty across the borders, and the price of a megawatt falls to the cost of a breath.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 49%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.9 GW
Solar
65.6 GW
Total generation
+6.9 GW
Net export
1.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75.0% / 370.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.9 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under partially cloudy but bright afternoon daylight. Wind onshore 18.7 GW spans the upper background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind across green summer hills. Wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea. Brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with modest white steam plumes rising against the overcast patches. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single slim exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and thin wisp of exhaust, tucked behind the gas plant. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and low stacks in the middle-left ground. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a river with a small dam and powerhouse in the foreground valley. The sky is 75% covered with layered cumulus and altocumulus clouds in white and pale grey, but generous patches of blue allow strong afternoon sunlight to break through, casting warm golden light across the landscape at a 15:00 June sun angle — high in the southwestern sky. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees, meadows, and wildflowers reflect a mild 18°C early-summer day. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant turbines and cooling towers — yet every technological element is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-09T13:20 UTC · Download image