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Grid Poet — 15 June 2026, 01:00
Strong overnight wind at 26.9 GW covers most demand; thermal plants provide baseload under an elevated 93 EUR price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 on a mid-June night, wind generation dominates the German grid at 26.9 GW combined (onshore 20.6 GW, offshore 6.3 GW), delivering the bulk of a 78.6% renewable share. Thermal baseload continues with brown coal at 3.2 GW, natural gas at 4.1 GW, and hard coal at 1.6 GW, supplemented by 3.7 GW biomass and 1.7 GW hydro. Total domestic generation of 41.2 GW falls 0.4 GW short of the 41.6 GW consumption, requiring a modest net import. The day-ahead price of 92.9 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour with high wind availability, suggesting either transmission constraints, high gas prices feeding into marginal cost, or demand from neighboring markets pulling exports elsewhere in the bidding zone.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the dark summer air, their tireless chorus swallowing the midnight hour. Below, the old furnaces still breathe their amber glow, unwilling to relinquish the night to the wind alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
79%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
-0.4 GW
Net import
92.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
20.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
140
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.6 GW dominates the scene as dozens of massive three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the right, their rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.3 GW appears in the far background as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed through a valley gap. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits in the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer and warm sodium-lit facades. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a squat smokestack and conveyor belt, warmly illuminated. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by amber industrial lighting. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam spillway with dark water gleaming under floodlights in the lower left. Hard coal 1.6 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single rectangular stack beside a coal heap, dimly lit. The time is 1:00 AM in mid-June: the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars faintly visible through 20% thin cloud. The landscape is lit only by artificial sodium streetlights, amber and white industrial facility lights, and the faint red aviation warning lights atop the wind turbines dotting the hills. Fresh green summer vegetation on the hillsides is barely visible in the reflected industrial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, with a warm haze around the industrial facilities suggesting the elevated electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, burnt sienna, and raw umber — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distances, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 15 June 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-14T23:20 UTC · Download image