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Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 19:00
Wind leads at 12.6 GW but 19.8 GW net imports required as overcast evening drives prices to 150 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 19:00 on a heavily overcast April evening, German domestic generation reaches only 27.6 GW against consumption of 47.4 GW, requiring approximately 19.8 GW of net imports. Wind provides the bulk of domestic output at 12.6 GW combined (onshore 8.9, offshore 3.7), supplemented by a thermal baseload of 8.1 GW from brown coal, hard coal, and natural gas. Solar is effectively absent at 0.9 GW given the late hour and 97% cloud cover, while biomass contributes a steady 4.7 GW. The day-ahead price of 149.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and reliance on expensive imports and dispatchable fossil units to cover the substantial generation shortfall.
Grid poem Claude AI
Turbines moan beneath a leaden shroud while coal fires burn to fill what wind alone cannot hold. The grid stretches its arms across borders, begging neighbors for the light that clouds have stolen.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 3%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.9 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
-19.8 GW
Net import
149.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97% / 9.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
198
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central-German hills with early spring grass. Wind offshore 3.7 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines on a distant grey horizon line above a sliver of dark sea. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes, beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit edge. Biomass 4.7 GW sits left of centre as a cluster of squat industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller coal plant behind the gas facility with a single square chimney and coal stockpile. Hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley in the centre-right middle distance. Solar 0.9 GW appears only as a tiny, barely visible array of dark aluminium-framed panels on a rooftop near the biomass facility, catching no light. The sky is dusk at 19:00 in April Berlin time: the upper sky is a deep slate-blue fading to darkness, with a narrow band of dim orange-red glow along the lower western horizon rapidly disappearing. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and humid, reflecting the high electricity price — low thick clouds at 97% cover press down on the landscape. Temperature is a mild 13.8°C with early spring vegetation: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, damp fields. Light wind at 9.8 km/h gently turns the turbine blades. Sodium streetlights begin to glow amber along a road in the foreground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy: visible turbine blade profiles, cooling tower reinforcement ribs, CCGT exhaust geometry. Rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 19:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T19:17 UTC · Download image