📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 06:00
Strong onshore wind drives 86% renewables, creating 8.8 GW net exports under overcast pre-dawn skies.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on 4 April 2026, wind generation dominates the German grid at a combined 40.6 GW (onshore 34.1 GW, offshore 6.5 GW), accounting for the vast majority of the 86.2% renewable share. Total generation of 53.4 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 44.6 GW, yielding a net export of approximately 8.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 13.4 EUR/MWh reflects this comfortable supply position and suppressed thermal dispatch; gas (3.2 GW), brown coal (2.2 GW), and hard coal (1.9 GW) remain online at reduced output, likely providing inertia and balancing reserves. Solar contributes nothing at this pre-dawn hour under full overcast, while biomass (4.4 GW) and hydro (1.0 GW) provide steady baseload support.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the grey April dawn, their invisible chorus flooding the wires with more power than the nation can hold. The old coal furnaces glow dimly in deference, embers kept warm against a wind that needs no rest.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 4%
86%
Renewable share
40.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
+8.8 GW
Net export
13.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 34.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on a grey North Sea horizon visible through a gap in the terrain at the far right; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground combined heat-and-power plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos; natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and modest steam wisp in the centre-left middle ground; brown coal 2.2 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes on the far left; hard coal 1.9 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and single stack beside the lignite plant; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a foreground river. TIME AND LIGHT: early dawn at 06:00 in April — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no solar panels visible anywhere; 100% cloud cover creates a uniform heavy overcast with no stars. The landscape is spring with fresh pale-green budding trees and damp meadows at 9.8°C. Wind at 11.4 km/h sets turbine blades in gentle rotation and bends young grasses. The low electricity price is reflected in a calm, open, spacious atmosphere without oppressive weight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty layering of hill ridges, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack, warm sodium-orange artificial lights glowing from industrial facilities in the pre-dawn darkness, dramatic yet serene composition reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T06:18 UTC · Download image