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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 09:00
Wind and solar together produce 47.2 GW, driving 93.8% renewable share and slight negative prices amid 6.2 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is comfortably oversupplied at 09:00, with 56.9 GW of generation against 50.7 GW of consumption, resulting in approximately 6.2 GW of net export. Renewables account for 93.8% of generation, led by solar at 24.8 GW — performing well despite 80% cloud cover, likely benefiting from diffuse radiation across widespread installations — and a strong combined wind contribution of 22.4 GW. Thermal generation is minimal: natural gas at 1.6 GW, brown coal at 1.5 GW, and hard coal at just 0.4 GW, consistent with must-run obligations and ancillary service provision rather than economic dispatch. The day-ahead price of −1.1 EUR/MWh reflects the modest oversupply, though the negative signal is shallow, suggesting cross-border export capacity is absorbing most of the excess without significant curtailment pressure.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind and sun have seized the wires and bent the price below the earth, while coal's last embers flicker faintly in a world that scarcely needs their warmth. A nation exhales its surplus light across the borders, asking nothing in return.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
22.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.8 GW
Solar
56.9 GW
Total generation
+6.1 GW
Net export
-1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
80.0% / 136.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
41
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 24.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland; wind onshore 19.7 GW fills the left half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-left horizon above a faintly visible sea line; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single modest steam stack; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-left foreground; natural gas 1.6 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, placed in the mid-left background; brown coal 1.5 GW is a small lignite plant with one hyperbolic cooling tower trailing a wispy steam plume, tucked into the far background; hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible small stack behind the brown coal plant. TIME AND LIGHT: mid-morning full daylight at 09:00, but an overcast sky with 80% cloud cover creates soft diffuse illumination — a bright grey-white cloud layer with occasional thin breaks letting pale golden light filter through onto the panels. The atmosphere is calm and open, almost serene, reflecting the slightly negative electricity price. Temperature is a mild 16.9°C in mid-June; vegetation is lush deep green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, deciduous trees in full summer leaf. Wind visibly animates the scene: grass bending, turbine blades in motion blur, light ripples on the river surface. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated greens and muted silvers, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with hazy blue distances, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge reflection, every cooling tower curve. The composition conveys the industrial sublime — technology embedded in a peaceful, abundant landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 09:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T07:20 UTC · Download image