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Grid Poet — 12 June 2026, 00:00
Wind leads at 12.4 GW but 14.7 GW net imports are needed as midnight demand outpaces domestic generation.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on 12 June 2026, Germany's grid draws 47.5 GW against 32.8 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 14.7 GW of net imports. Wind generation is robust at 12.4 GW combined (onshore 9.5 GW, offshore 2.9 GW), and together with 4.0 GW biomass and 2.0 GW hydro delivers a 55.8% renewable share — solid for a zero-solar nighttime hour. Thermal baseload fills the remainder: brown coal at 6.4 GW, natural gas at 5.8 GW, and hard coal at 2.3 GW, all running at levels consistent with covering the import gap economics. The day-ahead price of 116.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and the cost of dispatching coal and gas units alongside significant cross-border procurement.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of cloud, turbines carve the summer night while furnaces glow amber at their feet. The grid hums taut as a drawn bowstring, its hunger fed by foreign rivers of current streaming through the dark.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
56%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.8 GW
Total generation
-14.7 GW
Net import
116.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
299
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 9.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of offshore turbines silhouetted against the horizon over a dark sea; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and coal bunkers, lit by banks of sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.8 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks and heat-recovery enclosures, their steel structures bathed in warm halogen light; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas units, a single shorter stack with a thin plume; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized CHP facility with a timber-framed fuel storage hall and a modest chimney, visible centre-right near the turbine field; hydro 2.0 GW is a concrete dam structure in the far background with water cascading, illuminated by small spotlights. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black with a solid 100% overcast ceiling — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — only a deep charcoal-grey cloud mass faintly reflecting the industrial light below. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low-hanging clouds press down upon the landscape, humid summer air making the steam plumes spread and linger. Temperature is mild at 11°C; the vegetation is lush early-summer green, visible only where sodium streetlights and facility floods illuminate the foreground grasses and roadside trees. Transmission lines on steel pylons cut diagonally across the mid-ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between glowing industrial islands and the vast surrounding darkness, atmospheric sfumato in the steam and cloud layers — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and CCGT stack is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 June 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T22:20 UTC · Download image