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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 08:00
Strong onshore wind and moderate solar drive 91.5% renewables, pushing net exports to 5.8 GW at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 08:00 on a June Saturday morning is comfortably in net export territory, with 54.0 GW of generation against 48.2 GW of consumption, yielding 5.8 GW of net export. Wind dominates at 25.8 GW combined (onshore 20.5, offshore 5.3), while solar contributes 17.5 GW despite 86% cloud cover—consistent with diffuse irradiance on a mid-June morning with high sun angle. The near-zero day-ahead price of €0.3/MWh reflects the oversupply and high renewable share of 91.5%, leaving little room for thermal dispatch; gas, hard coal, and brown coal together provide only 4.5 GW, largely operating at or near technical minimums. Biomass and hydro supply a steady 6.2 GW of baseload, rounding out an unremarkable but structurally healthy morning state.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand pale blades carve the overcast dawn, their tireless hymn drowning the last ember-glow of coal in a tide of wind and diffused light. The market whispers near silence—power so abundant it is almost free, a grey river flowing beyond every shore.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 32%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
25.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.5 GW
Solar
54.0 GW
Total generation
+5.8 GW
Net export
0.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
86.0% / 70.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
57
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 20.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into atmospheric haze; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills; solar 17.5 GW fills the centre-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled upward, reflecting the flat diffuse light of a heavily overcast sky; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a tall stack emitting thin white exhaust and adjacent wood-chip storage; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the left foreground along a wooded riverbank; brown coal 1.9 GW occupies the far left as a single large hyperbolic cooling tower with a thin wisp of steam, conveyor belt visible, modest in scale; natural gas 1.8 GW sits beside it as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack barely steaming; hard coal 0.8 GW is a small dark-bricked power station behind the gas plant, its chimney nearly idle. The sky is full June-morning daylight at 08:00, bright but entirely diffused through 86% low stratiform cloud cover—no direct sun, no shadows, a luminous pearl-grey sky with faint warm tones near the eastern horizon. Temperature 16°C: lush early-summer vegetation, dew on grass, wildflowers in meadow edges. Wind turbine blades show motion blur suggesting moderate breeze. The near-zero electricity price is evoked by a calm, open, expansive atmosphere with no oppressive weight. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy, rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic sense of scale between human technology and the breadth of the northern European plain. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T06:20 UTC · Download image