Grid Poet — 15 June 2026, 10:00

Wind and overcast solar together produce 58.3 GW, pushing Germany to 8.4 GW net export at a low clearing price.

Grid analysis Claude AI

Germany's grid at 10:00 on a mid-June morning is heavily renewable-dominated at 88.3%, driven by strong wind generation (27.3 GW combined onshore and offshore) and 31.0 GW of solar output despite full overcast — diffuse irradiance at this time of year still delivers substantial PV yield even with only 11 W/m² direct radiation. Total generation of 72.3 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 63.9 GW, resulting in a net export position of approximately 8.4 GW, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 21.6 EUR/MWh reflecting comfortable supply conditions across the Central European market. Thermal generation remains modest, with brown coal at 3.6 GW and natural gas at 3.2 GW likely operating as must-run or contracted baseload, while hard coal at 1.6 GW sits near minimum stable generation; biomass at 3.9 GW and hydro at 1.7 GW provide steady dispatchable renewable output.

Grid poem Claude AI

Beneath a pewter sky the turbines sing in ceaseless chorus, their pale blades harvesting a wind that carries summer rain, while ten thousand darkened panels drink the grey light like patient monks drawing nourishment from silence. The old coal towers exhale their fading breath at the horizon's edge, relics murmuring beside a river that has already turned.

Generation mix

Wind onshore 31%

Wind offshore 7%

Solar 43%

Biomass 5%

Hydro 2%

Natural gas 4%

Hard coal 2%

Brown coal 5%

88%

Renewable share

27.3 GW

Wind (on + offshore)

31.0 GW

Solar

72.3 GW

Total generation

+8.4 GW

Net export

21.6 €/MWh

Day-ahead price

13.2°C / 13 km/h

Temp / Wind speed

Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)

100.0% / 11.0 W/m²

Cloud cover / Radiation

gCO₂/kWh

Image prompt

Solar 31.0 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat pearl-white overcast sky; wind onshore 22.2 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across crop fields and low hills; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears in the far right background as a line of offshore turbines visible across a grey North Sea horizon; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the left-centre background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy cloud layer; biomass 3.9 GW sits just left of centre as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with short stacks and thin pale exhaust; natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack releasing a faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.7 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at far left; hard coal 1.6 GW shows as a smaller power station with a single square cooling tower and coal conveyor belt, partially obscured behind trees. The sky is entirely overcast with thick stratiform clouds in layered grey and off-white tones, but full mid-morning daylight at 10:00 in June illuminates the scene with soft, even, shadowless brightness. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, temperature around 13°C suggested by dew on grass and a cool atmospheric haze. The low electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open, unhurried composition with generous horizontal space and gentle pastoral stillness. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Carl Blechen's industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous overcast sky with subtle tonal gradations, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.

Grid data: 15 June 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-15T08:20 UTC · Download image