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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 02:00
Strong overnight wind at 24.1 GW leads generation; brown coal and net imports of 3.1 GW cover the remainder.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a mild June night, wind generation dominates the mix at 24.1 GW combined (onshore 19.5 GW, offshore 4.6 GW), providing the backbone of supply alongside 4.9 GW of brown coal baseload and 3.8 GW of biomass. With zero solar output and consumption at 41.2 GW against 38.1 GW domestic generation, Germany is drawing approximately 3.1 GW of net imports to balance the system. The 78.3% renewable share is strong for a nighttime hour, reflecting robust wind conditions across the country. The day-ahead price of 65.9 EUR/MWh sits in a moderate range, consistent with the residual thermal and import requirements needed to close the generation gap.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the clouded dark, their whisper the only hymn the sleeping land will hear. Below, the ancient fires of lignite still breathe their slow defiance against the turning age.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 13%
78%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.1 GW
Total generation
-3.1 GW
Net import
65.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
155
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; wind offshore 4.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea, their aviation warning lights blinking red; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage bunkers under floodlights; natural gas 2.5 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; hydro 1.9 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the lower left with water cascading faintly; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller smokestack behind the brown coal complex. The sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow, heavy 92% cloud cover blocking all stars — the clouds faintly visible only where industrial light catches their undersides in dull orange. Temperature 14°C: lush early-summer vegetation, dense green grass and leafy deciduous trees rendered in dark tones. A moderate oppressive atmospheric weight to reflect 65.9 EUR/MWh pricing — low haze clinging to the ground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, rich dark palette of Prussian blue, lamp black, raw umber, and sodium orange, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the clouds, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T00:20 UTC · Download image