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Grid Poet — 12 June 2026, 10:00
Wind leads at 20.4 GW but full overcast limits solar; 10.9 GW net imports fill the gap, lifting prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a fully overcast June morning, wind generation leads the mix at a combined 20.4 GW onshore and offshore, while solar output is heavily suppressed at 14.1 GW despite the season—consistent with 100% cloud cover and near-zero direct radiation. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal contributing 6.2 GW, hard coal 2.6 GW, and natural gas 3.1 GW, collectively providing roughly 23% of generation. Domestic generation of 52.2 GW falls short of the 63.1 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 10.9 GW, which aligns with the elevated day-ahead price of 102.1 EUR/MWh—a level reflecting tight supply conditions rather than any emergency, but one that signals the cost of leaning on imports and thermal dispatch under unfavorable solar weather.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines carve their vigil through restless air, while coal towers exhale slow columns of grey into a ceiling that refuses to break. The grid reaches beyond its borders, drawing current from distant hands to feed the hum of sixty million lives.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 27%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
20.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.1 GW
Solar
52.2 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
102.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
163
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.0 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.4 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines on a grey sea horizon. Solar 14.1 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, but they are dull and matte under the heavy overcast, reflecting no direct sunlight—only diffuse grey. Brown coal 6.2 GW fills the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Hard coal 2.6 GW stands as a smaller coal plant with a single tall chimney and conveyor belts, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with polished exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling tower, placed between the coal plants and the solar fields. Biomass 3.9 GW is a mid-sized industrial biogas plant with cylindrical digesters and a modest smokestack, nestled among farm buildings in the centre-left middle ground. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with turbine housing visible along a swollen river cutting through the lower foreground. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, heavy, unbroken stratiform clouds—no blue, no sun disc, no shadows on the ground—full diffuse daylight of a 10 AM June morning but oppressive and thick, reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is cool for June at 13°C: figures in the landscape wear light jackets, and the lush early-summer vegetation—bright green grass, leafy deciduous trees, rapeseed fields past bloom—glistens faintly with moisture. The atmosphere is dense and close, with a yellowish-grey quality to the cloud base suggesting humidity and pressure. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the middle distance, conductors sagging slightly, symbolizing the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich colour palette of moss greens, slate greys, ochres, and muted whites, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy industrial distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower flute, every PV cell grid line. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 June 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-12T08:20 UTC · Download image