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Grid Poet — 20 June 2026, 13:00
Solar at 47 GW under clear skies drives 12.2 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates the German grid at 47.0 GW under cloudless skies and 675 W/m² direct irradiance, constituting 77.6% of total generation and driving the renewable share to 92.9%. With total generation at 60.6 GW against consumption of 48.4 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 12.2 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. Thermal generation is at minimal levels — brown coal at 2.3 GW and gas at 1.6 GW likely reflect must-run constraints and ancillary service obligations rather than economic dispatch. Wind contributes a modest 4.0 GW combined, consistent with the light 7.9 km/h surface winds observed across central Germany.
Grid poem Claude AI
A blazing sun pours gold across a million crystalline faces, drowning the grid in light so vast the turbines barely whisper. The old coal towers stand half-idle, breathing thin ghost-plumes into a sky that no longer needs their fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 77%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.0 GW
Solar
60.6 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 675.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 47.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering nearly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under blazing midday sun. Wind onshore 2.7 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge at the right, their rotors turning lazily in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon beyond a river. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green digester dome and a short exhaust stack near the middle ground. Brown coal 2.3 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes — clearly throttled down. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with water cascading over it in the foreground. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT plant beside the cooling towers, its exhaust barely visible. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single darkened smokestack behind the gas plant, nearly dormant. The sky is completely cloudless, intense cerulean blue, with a high white sun at its zenith casting sharp shadows. Temperature 27.6 °C is conveyed through lush deep-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, heat shimmer rising from the panels, dry golden grass at field edges. The atmosphere is calm and expansive — no oppressive haze — reflecting a zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to pale blue at the horizon, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 June 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-20T11:20 UTC · Download image