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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 15:00
Solar at 35.1 GW and wind at 20.8 GW drive 95.8% renewables and negative prices on a June afternoon.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 15:00 on a mid-June afternoon, the German grid is generating 63.6 GW against 48.1 GW of consumption, producing a net export position of 15.5 GW. Solar dominates at 35.1 GW despite 69% cloud cover, reflecting the long June day and high installed capacity, while combined onshore and offshore wind contributes 20.8 GW under moderate 27.4 km/h winds. The day-ahead price has settled at -31.5 EUR/MWh, consistent with the substantial renewable oversupply and limited flexibility from dispatchable thermal plants, which have already been curtailed to near-minimum levels — gas at 1.2 GW, hard coal essentially offline at 0.1 GW, and brown coal holding at 1.4 GW on must-run constraints. Renewable share stands at 95.8%, a strong but increasingly routine outcome for sunny, windy summer afternoons.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun and wind conspire to flood the wires with more than any city dares to drink, and the price of power sinks below the earth like a stone swallowed by a river. Even the ancient lignite towers stand humbled, their plumes mere whispers against a sky that belongs to light and motion alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 55%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
96%
Renewable share
20.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.1 GW
Solar
63.6 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
-31.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 27 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
69.0% / 281.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
28
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3 Clean Hour #3 Helle Brise
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Solar 35.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green summer fields, their aluminium frames glinting under partially cloudy but bright afternoon light. Wind onshore 17.9 GW fills the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind, scattered across gentle hills. Wind offshore 2.9 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far horizon, pale against hazy sky over a suggested northern coastline. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest cluster of wood-clad biomass plants with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes, nestled among trees at centre-left. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-left foreground near a stream. Brown coal 1.4 GW is a single hyperbolic cooling tower far in the background at left, emitting a thin, subdued steam plume, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure. Natural gas 1.2 GW sits beside it as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 0.1 GW is barely visible — a dormant smokestack with no plume, nearly hidden behind trees. The sky is afternoon bright at 15:00 in June, with layered cumulus clouds covering roughly two-thirds of a blue sky, sunlight breaking through in broad shafts illuminating the solar panels. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, conveying abundance and ease — a wide-open sky with no oppressive weight, matching deeply negative electricity prices. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, temperature around 21°C suggested by light summer haze. 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 colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with luminous cloud studies, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, and cooling tower curve. The composition evokes a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T13:20 UTC · Download image