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Grid Poet — 14 June 2026, 03:00
Strong overnight wind (30.2 GW combined) drives 86.5% renewable share and 2.6 GW net export at low prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 03:00 CEST, Germany's grid is firmly wind-dominated: onshore wind delivers 23.6 GW and offshore adds 6.6 GW, together comprising 73% of total generation. Combined with 3.7 GW biomass and 1.8 GW hydro, the renewable share reaches 86.5%. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels — brown coal at 2.6 GW, hard coal at 1.5 GW, and natural gas at 1.4 GW — reflecting minimum stable generation commitments and ancillary service provision. With consumption at 38.6 GW against 41.2 GW of generation, the system is in a net export position of 2.6 GW, consistent with the moderate day-ahead price of 28.1 EUR/MWh, which sits well below average but is supported by residual thermal dispatch costs.
Grid poem Claude AI
A continent of spinning blades drinks deep the summer night, their tireless chorus pressing power outward past the borders into sleeping lands. Below, the old coal furnaces glow like stubborn embers, too proud to die, too small now to matter.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
30.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
+2.6 GW
Net export
28.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.0°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
83.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
97
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 23.6 GW dominates the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and streamlined nacelles stretching across rolling Central German hills from left of centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.6 GW appears in the distant right background as a cluster of larger offshore turbines rising from a faintly visible dark horizon line; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall rectangular stack emitting a thin pale exhaust plume and adjacent wood-chip storage domes; brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers releasing lazy columns of steam, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam structure nestled in a valley in the left middle-ground with faint white water at its base; hard coal 1.5 GW is a single smaller cooling tower and conveyor structure beside the lignite plant; natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single slim exhaust stack near the coal complex. Time is 3 AM deep night: the sky is completely black, no twilight, no sky glow, only stars faintly visible through 83% cloud cover rendered as dark grey masses obscuring most of the firmament. All industrial structures are lit by warm sodium-orange and cool LED-white security lighting, casting pools of light on wet-looking green grass. Temperature is 11°C early summer: lush dark vegetation, slight mist in low valleys. Atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting low electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of indigo, charcoal, warm amber, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth across kilometres of terrain. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, lattice transmission towers with catenary lines, cooling tower parabolic geometry, concrete dam buttresses. The scene evokes a masterwork nocturne of the industrial landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 June 2026, 03:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-14T01:20 UTC · Download image