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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 13:00
Solar at 38.8 GW and wind at 19.4 GW drive a 15.4 GW net export with deeply negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 13 June 2026 is experiencing a substantial renewable surplus, with 63.2 GW of wind and solar alone against 50.6 GW of consumption, producing a net export position of approximately 15.4 GW. Solar contributes 38.8 GW despite full cloud cover, indicating extensive diffuse irradiance across the large installed PV base, while combined onshore and offshore wind adds 19.4 GW on a moderately windy day. The day-ahead price has fallen to −45.9 EUR/MWh, reflecting the oversupply and limited flexibility from remaining thermal baseload: brown coal still runs at 1.4 GW and natural gas at 1.2 GW, likely constrained by must-run obligations or ancillary service commitments. The 95.9% renewable share is high but increasingly routine for a summer midday hour with strong wind coinciding with solar output.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sky is veiled yet light pours through in rivers of invisible fire, flooding the wires until the grid itself must beg its neighbors to drink. Turbines bow and rise across green hills like a congregation at prayer, while the old coal towers breathe their last thin hymns into an indifferent wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
96%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.8 GW
Solar
66.0 GW
Total generation
+15.4 GW
Net export
-45.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 26 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 138.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
27
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 Clean Hour #2 Helle Brise
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Solar 38.8 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky; wind onshore 16.6 GW fills the midground and right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades visibly spinning in moderate wind, scattered across green summer meadows and low forested hills; wind offshore 2.8 GW appears on the far left horizon as a distant cluster of offshore turbines rising from a hazy river or estuary; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a wooden-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting thin white vapour, positioned centre-left; brown coal 1.4 GW appears as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a modest steam plume in the deep background left; natural gas 1.2 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack beside the cooling tower; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at far right. The lighting is full midday daylight under 100% cloud cover — bright but completely diffuse, no shadows, no visible sun, a flat luminous white-grey sky giving even illumination across the entire landscape. The temperature of 19.7°C is expressed in lush green deciduous foliage, wildflowers, and tall grass swaying in the 26 km/h breeze. The deeply negative electricity price is conveyed by an open, calm, almost weightless atmosphere — spacious sky, serene pastures, a sense of overabundance and quietude. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell row, every cooling tower curve — a masterwork panoramic industrial landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T11:20 UTC · Download image