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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 10:00
Solar at 30.8 GW and wind at 21.2 GW drive 95% renewables and 9.1 GW net export at negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a June morning, Germany's grid is overwhelmingly renewable at 95.2%, with solar contributing 30.8 GW and combined wind delivering 21.2 GW as the dominant sources. Total generation of 60.9 GW against consumption of 51.8 GW yields a net export position of 9.1 GW, pushing the day-ahead price to -4.9 EUR/MWh — a routine outcome for well-supplied mid-morning hours in summer. Thermal generation is minimal: gas at 1.2 GW, brown coal at 1.5 GW, and hard coal essentially at technical minimum of 0.2 GW, reflecting inflexible must-run commitments. Biomass at 3.9 GW and hydro at 2.0 GW provide their usual baseload complement, rounding out a textbook summer renewables-dominated hour.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun and wind conspire to flood the wires with more than any city dares to drink, and the price falls below the earth like a whispered apology. Smokestacks stand idle as sentinels of a fading age, their plumes thin as ghosts dissolving into a June sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
95%
Renewable share
21.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.8 GW
Solar
60.9 GW
Total generation
+9.1 GW
Net export
-4.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
80.0% / 297.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
32
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.8 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and lower half of the painting, covering rolling green hills in orderly blue-black rows glinting under diffused daylight. Wind onshore 18.6 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, rotors spinning moderately in a 17 km/h breeze, arrayed across gentle farmland with June-green crops. Wind offshore 2.6 GW appears at the far left horizon as a small cluster of turbines rising from a hazy distant sea. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized timber-clad power station with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage yard in the centre-right middle ground. Hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway set into a forested valley on the right side. Brown coal 1.5 GW occupies a small area at the far right as a single hyperbolic cooling tower emitting a thin wisp of steam, with conveyor belts and open-pit mine visible behind it. Natural gas 1.2 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked beside the cooling tower. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a tiny, nearly dormant facility with a single dark chimney barely visible behind trees. The sky is 80% overcast with layered alto-cumulus clouds in grey and cream, but generous gaps let patches of bright diffused sunlight through — full daytime at 10:00 in June, with warm ambient light. Temperature is mild at 18°C; vegetation is lush, deep green, early-summer foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive weight, a sense of abundance and ease. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distances, meticulous engineering detail on all turbines, panels, and industrial structures, dramatic yet serene composition. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T08:20 UTC · Download image