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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 14:00
Solar (38 GW) and wind (20 GW) drive 16.6 GW net exports and deeply negative prices on a breezy overcast afternoon.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a windy, overcast June afternoon, renewables supply 95.9% of German load, dominated by 38.0 GW of solar despite 96% cloud cover—diffuse irradiance and the sheer installed base carry the generation. Onshore wind contributes 17.3 GW with offshore adding 2.9 GW, consistent with the 31.7 km/h surface winds observed. Total generation of 65.7 GW against 49.1 GW consumption yields a net export position of 16.6 GW, driving the day-ahead price to –45.0 EUR/MWh, a level at which dispatchable plants face strong curtailment incentives. Thermal generation is nearly fully suppressed: gas at 1.2 GW, brown coal at 1.4 GW, and hard coal at 0.1 GW are likely operating at must-run minimums or providing contracted reserves.
Grid poem Claude AI
A silver torrent of light spills through the veiled sky, and ten thousand silent panels drink what the clouds cannot hold. The turbines roar their hymn across green plains while the old furnaces, barely breathing, bow before the flood.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 58%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
96%
Renewable share
20.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
65.7 GW
Total generation
+16.6 GW
Net export
-45.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 32 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 234.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
28
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2 Clean Hour #1 Helle Brise
Image prompt
Solar 38.0 GW dominates the composition: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across more than half the canvas, filling the centre and right foreground, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse midday light under a thick, luminous overcast sky. Wind onshore 17.3 GW occupies the left-centre and middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind, scattered across rolling green summer farmland. Wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far distance at the right horizon as a small cluster of offshore turbines rising from a hazy sea. Biomass 3.6 GW is represented in the left middle-ground as a modest wood-chip power station with a squat industrial building and a single stack trailing thin white exhaust. Brown coal 1.4 GW appears in the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint wisps of steam, nearly idle, their scale deliberately diminished. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a river winding through the foreground meadow. Natural gas 1.2 GW shows as a single compact CCGT unit beside the river, its exhaust stack barely pluming. Hard coal 0.1 GW is a nearly invisible dark smokestack on the far left horizon, cold and dormant. The sky is bright but entirely overcast at 96% cloud cover, a silvery-white blanket with subtle grey undulations, diffuse light casting soft shadows—no direct sun disk visible, yet the scene is well-lit as befits 14:00 in June. Temperature of 20 °C gives lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall summer grasses, wildflowers. Wind at 31.7 km/h bends grasses, ripples the river surface, and sets tree canopies swaying. The negative price atmosphere is rendered as an open, calm, spacious composition with generous sky and a feeling of abundance—energy pouring outward with nowhere left to go. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth blended with Carl Blechen's industrial realism—rich colour, visible confident brushwork, warm greens and cool silvers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T12:20 UTC · Download image