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Grid Poet — 5 April 2026, 04:00
Strong overnight wind at 36.7 GW dominates, pushing 7.4 GW of net exports and prices slightly negative.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 CEST, Germany's grid is powered almost entirely by renewables at 89.1%, driven by a strong combined wind output of 36.7 GW onshore and offshore into a modest overnight demand of 39.6 GW. Residual load stands at just 2.9 GW, with brown coal providing 2.0 GW and natural gas 2.0 GW of baseload thermal generation, alongside 1.1 GW each from hard coal and hydro. Total generation of 47.0 GW exceeds consumption by 7.4 GW, indicating net exports of approximately 7.4 GW to neighbouring markets, consistent with the slightly negative day-ahead price of -1.6 EUR/MWh. Thermal plants are running at minimum stable generation levels, and the negative price reflects the cost some generators are willing to absorb to avoid shutdown and restart cycling.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the black April sky, their tireless chorus drowning coal's last murmur beneath a river of invisible wind. The grid breathes out its bounty to foreign shores, while the price slips below zero like a stone sinking through still, dark water.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
36.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
-1.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 32.1 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition. Wind offshore 4.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon, barely visible through haze. Brown coal 2.0 GW sits in the left foreground as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising into the darkness. Natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, positioned beside the cooling towers. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack emitting pale vapor. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and single stack, partially obscured behind the biomass plant. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and turbine house nestled along a dark river in the middle distance. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The sky is completely black with heavy 99% cloud cover blocking all stars, a deep navy-to-black overcast ceiling. The only light comes from sodium-orange streetlights along a rural road, warm glowing windows of the power facilities, red aviation warning lights blinking atop every wind turbine nacelle creating a rhythmic constellation across the hills, and the pale industrial illumination of the coal and gas plants. Spring vegetation — early green grass, budding deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light. Temperature is mild at 10.5°C; no frost. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price: no oppressive haze, just a vast, quiet, wind-swept nocturnal landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich deep blues, warm sodium oranges, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into darkness — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 April 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-05T04:17 UTC · Download image