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Grid Poet — 14 June 2026, 15:00
Solar at 32 GW and wind at 21.3 GW drive 13.2 GW net export and negative prices on a cloudy June afternoon.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 15:00 on a breezy June afternoon is running at 95.5% renewable penetration, with solar contributing 32.0 GW and combined wind delivering 21.3 GW despite 88% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance at 98 W/m² still supports substantial PV output. Total generation of 60.8 GW against 47.5 GW consumption yields a net export position of 13.2 GW, driving the day-ahead price to –20.0 EUR/MWh and indicating neighbouring markets are also well-supplied. Thermal generation is nearly fully displaced: natural gas and hard coal are at floor levels (1.2 GW and 0.1 GW respectively), while brown coal holds at 1.4 GW, likely reflecting must-run constraints on a handful of lignite units. Biomass at 3.5 GW and hydro at 1.2 GW provide steady baseload support, rounding out an unremarkable but structurally significant oversupply hour.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind and sun conspire to flood the wires with more than any city dares to drink, and the price sinks below zero like a stone cast into still water. Smokestacks stand idle as monuments to a fading age, while turbine blades carve bright arcs through a grey June sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 53%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 2%
96%
Renewable share
21.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.0 GW
Solar
60.8 GW
Total generation
+13.2 GW
Net export
-20.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88.0% / 98.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
30
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 32.0 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland under overcast but bright daylight; wind onshore 18.6 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers with nacelles angled into a steady breeze, blades visibly turning; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears at the far horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a faintly visible grey sea; biomass 3.5 GW sits in the mid-left as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a low rectangular stack trailing thin white exhaust; brown coal 1.4 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with faint wisps of steam, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure; natural gas 1.2 GW appears as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack barely producing visible emissions; hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small concrete run-of-river dam with water spilling over a weir in the right foreground near a wooded riverbank. The sky is 88% overcast with a bright but diffuse milky-grey cloud layer at 15:00 full daylight, soft shadows, no direct sun visible but the scene is luminous. Temperature 15°C — lush green early-summer vegetation, wildflowers, rich grass. The breeze bends tall grasses and ripples a small pond near the solar field. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting negative electricity prices — expansive, unhurried, generous light. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to an industrial-renewable landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 June 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-14T13:20 UTC · Download image