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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 18:00
Strong onshore wind and late-afternoon solar drive 94% renewables, pushing prices negative and enabling 7.1 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a June evening, wind generation dominates the German grid at 31.9 GW combined onshore and offshore, complemented by 16.0 GW of solar still producing strongly in the long summer daylight. Renewables account for 94.4% of total generation, pushing the residual load to -7.1 GW and resulting in a net export of approximately 7.1 GW to neighboring markets. The day-ahead price has turned marginally negative at -0.5 EUR/MWh, reflecting the oversupply and limited flexibility in must-run conventional units — brown coal at 1.6 GW and natural gas at 1.3 GW remain online, likely for system stability and contractual obligations. Biomass at 3.8 GW and hydro at 1.9 GW provide steady baseload support, while hard coal has been nearly fully displaced at just 0.2 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind howls sovereign across a land drenched in late gold, turbines turning like the arms of titans who have conquered fire and coal. The price falls below zero — the grid gives its power away like a river that has forgotten the meaning of thirst.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 28%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
31.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.0 GW
Solar
56.8 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
-0.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.5°C / 26 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
42.0% / 249.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
38
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 28.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning visibly in strong wind; solar 16.0 GW appears as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the centre-right foreground, angled to catch the low western sun; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and woodchip storage yard at the left-centre; wind offshore 3.4 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a faintly visible sea; hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway at the far left, water catching the warm light; brown coal 1.6 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes; natural gas 1.3 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hard coal 0.2 GW is a small, barely smoking stack nearly lost in the background. The scene is set at dusk — 18:00 in June Berlin time — with a warm orange-gold glow on the lower western horizon, the sky above transitioning from soft peach to a deepening blue, scattered broken clouds (42% cover) lit from beneath in amber and rose. The landscape is lush with early-summer green vegetation, tall grasses swaying in strong wind (26 km/h), temperature 18.5°C lending a mild, pleasant atmosphere. The overall mood is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open sky, no oppressive atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant turbines and towers, dramatic yet serene. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, nacelle housings, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T16:20 UTC · Download image