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Grid Poet — 14 June 2026, 13:00
Solar at 35.2 GW and wind at 19.4 GW drive 12.4 GW net export and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 14 June 2026 is deeply oversupplied by renewables, with solar contributing 35.2 GW and combined wind delivering 19.4 GW, yielding a renewable share of 95.6%. Total generation of 62.2 GW against consumption of 49.8 GW results in a net export of 12.4 GW, pushing the day-ahead price to -23.4 EUR/MWh — a typical pattern for a sunny, breezy summer Saturday. Thermal generation is largely suppressed, with gas at 1.2 GW and brown coal at 1.4 GW representing inflexible must-run or contracted capacity rather than economic dispatch. The overcast sky reading of 100% cloud cover combined with 208 W/m² direct radiation suggests high thin cloud or rapidly breaking cover, still allowing substantial diffuse and intermittent direct irradiance to reach PV arrays.
Grid poem Claude AI
A tide of light and wind drowns the grid in abundance, spilling power across borders like a river breaching its banks. The old coal towers stand muted, their breath barely a whisper against the roaring chorus of silicon and sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 57%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
96%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.2 GW
Solar
62.2 GW
Total generation
+12.4 GW
Net export
-23.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 208.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
30
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse midday light; wind onshore 16.7 GW fills the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind across rolling green summer hills; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a grey sea glimpsed through a valley; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-fired power station with a tall stack and modest steam plume at centre-left; brown coal 1.4 GW appears as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a thin wisp of steam, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure, in the far left background; natural gas 1.2 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack barely visible behind the solar arrays; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded hillside at the far left edge. The sky is entirely overcast with a high, thin, luminous cloud layer — bright white-grey, no blue sky visible, yet the landscape is well-lit with soft, shadowless midday illumination typical of 13:00 in June. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf frame the edges. The atmosphere feels calm, open, almost weightless, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Temperature around 16°C gives the air a cool freshness; vegetation is vibrant but not sun-scorched. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with paler tones receding into the cloudy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 June 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-14T11:20 UTC · Download image