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Grid Poet — 12 June 2026, 20:00
Strong onshore wind leads generation but 14.5 GW net imports are needed as solar fades and evening demand peaks.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a June evening, Germany faces a 14.5 GW shortfall between domestic generation (42.1 GW) and consumption (56.6 GW), requiring approximately 14.5 GW of net imports. Wind onshore at 19.3 GW is the dominant source, contributing nearly half of all generation, while offshore wind adds another 2.8 GW. Brown coal at 6.3 GW and natural gas at 4.6 GW provide significant baseload and peaking support, reflecting a post-sunset period with solar collapsed to 1.2 GW under full overcast. The day-ahead price of 110.7 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with an evening demand peak coinciding with high import dependency and the activation of dispatchable thermal capacity.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines moan across a sunless plain while brown towers exhale their ancient breath, and the grid stretches hungry arms beyond its borders to drink the current of distant lands. A summer evening without light — only wind, only fire, only the hum of a nation borrowing from the dark.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
70%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.2 GW
Solar
42.1 GW
Total generation
-14.5 GW
Net import
110.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 14.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
209
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.3 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lights of an industrial complex; natural gas 4.6 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered centre-right as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a single modest smokestack with faint emissions; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested on the far horizon as a cluster of turbines silhouetted against the distant dark sea; hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in a valley at centre-background; hard coal 1.8 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single stack and conveyor belts on the far left; solar 1.2 GW is barely present as a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline panels on a hillside, completely dark and inactive, receiving no light. The sky is a deep navy-black, fully overcast with heavy low clouds — it is 20:00 in June, past civil twilight, completely dark with no sky glow or sunset remnants. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. All facilities are illuminated only by artificial light: sodium-orange and white industrial floodlights, glowing control-room windows, red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and stacks. Lush green summer vegetation — grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf — is barely visible in the artificial glow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark colour palette, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology depicted. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 June 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-12T18:20 UTC · Download image