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Grid Poet — 13 June 2026, 21:00
Strong onshore and offshore wind drives 85.7% renewables at nightfall, with coal and gas covering the thermal remainder.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a summer evening, wind generation dominates the German grid at 33.9 GW combined onshore and offshore, providing the bulk of an 85.7% renewable share. Solar has effectively ceased for the day at 0.2 GW, while biomass (4.2 GW), hydro (2.0 GW), and thermal plants — brown coal at 2.7 GW, natural gas at 2.4 GW, and hard coal at 1.7 GW — fill the remaining load. Domestic generation falls 0.5 GW short of the 47.5 GW consumption level, indicating a modest net import. The day-ahead price of 87.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a wind-rich hour, likely reflecting evening demand coinciding with the loss of solar and tight supply-demand balance across the interconnected European market.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines roar through the darkening June night, a chorus of steel and wind claiming the grid's throne. Below, the old coal towers exhale their fading breath, their glow a stubborn ember against the vast, wind-swept black.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 59%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
33.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
-0.6 GW
Net import
87.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
72.0% / 29.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 27.8 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas with dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly turning in strong wind. Wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far right background as a line of larger turbines standing in a dark sea on the horizon. Brown coal 2.7 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by amber industrial lighting. Natural gas 2.4 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack venting a thin heat shimmer, illuminated by sodium floodlights. Hard coal 1.7 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single smokestack and conveyor belt structure further left, glowing under yellow site lighting. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip storage domes and short stacks releasing pale vapor, positioned in the centre-left middle ground. Hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete dam structure with spillway in the distant left background, small spotlights reflecting off moving water. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 21:00 in mid-June Germany and full night has arrived. Stars are barely visible through 72% cloud cover rendered as heavy grey masses blotting out portions of the sky, lending an oppressive, heavy atmosphere reflecting the 87.2 EUR/MWh price. The wind at 19 km/h animates grass, tree branches, and turbine blades with visible motion. Temperature of 15°C gives lush green summer vegetation on the rolling terrain. All artificial lighting — sodium orange streetlamps along a road, white industrial floodlights, glowing windows in a distant village — provides the only illumination, casting long warm reflections. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark colour palette, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy for each energy technology — turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed details, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 June 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-13T19:20 UTC · Download image