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Grid Poet — 12 June 2026, 12:00
Wind and overcast solar dominate at 82.7% renewable share; 6.6 GW net imports balance residual thermal and demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 12 June, renewables supply 82.7% of Germany's 61.5 GW consumption, driven primarily by strong onshore wind at 18.7 GW and solar at 17.5 GW despite full overcast limiting direct irradiance to just 3 W/m²—diffuse radiation is doing the heavy lifting on the PV side. Domestic generation totals 54.9 GW against 61.5 GW demand, implying a net import of approximately 6.6 GW to close the gap, which is consistent with the moderately elevated day-ahead price of 81 EUR/MWh. Brown coal remains online at 5.2 GW alongside 2.9 GW of gas and 1.4 GW of hard coal, providing baseload inertia and filling the residual load that intermittent sources cannot fully cover under these cloud conditions. The price level reflects the import requirement and the need for thermal dispatch rather than any market stress; this is a routine early-summer pattern with healthy wind performance partially offset by underperforming solar.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sky sealed shut in pewter grey, the turbines rake the restless June wind while buried lignite fires glow on, faithful sentinels of the gap between what the clouds withhold and what the nation demands. The price hums its modest toll across the wires—an unremarkable noon, yet every megawatt a quiet war between old earth and moving air.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 32%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.5 GW
Solar
54.9 GW
Total generation
-6.6 GW
Net import
81.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.7 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; solar 17.5 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under flat, diffuse light, their surfaces reflecting a uniform pearl-grey sky; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast; wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a line of turbines on the distant left horizon above a faint strip of grey sea; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad CHP plant with a low exhaust stack and a pile of wood chips beside it, placed in the left-centre middle ground; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housing, adjacent to the lignite complex; hydro 1.9 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading through gates, nestled in the lower-left foreground beside a tree-lined bank; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller industrial plant with a single squat cooling tower and a coal conveyor, placed just behind the gas facility. The sky is a heavy, unbroken blanket of 100% cloud cover at midday—full diffuse daylight, bright but completely without shadows or direct sun, a luminous grey ceiling pressing down with a slightly oppressive weight reflecting the 81 EUR/MWh price. Lush mid-June vegetation in full green leaf, temperature around 14°C giving the air a cool, damp quality with mist clinging to the valleys between turbine ridges. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic compositional depth from the foreground weir to the distant offshore turbines, each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy including turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, and cooling tower parabolic geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 June 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-12T10:20 UTC · Download image