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Grid Poet — 7 April 2026, 20:00
Coal and gas dominate evening generation as 22 GW of net imports fill a wide supply gap at high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on an April evening, Germany faces a significant generation shortfall: domestic supply of 36.8 GW covers only 63% of the 58.8 GW consumption, requiring approximately 22.0 GW of net imports. Thermal generation dominates the domestic mix, with brown coal at 8.1 GW, natural gas at 7.5 GW, and hard coal at 6.3 GW collectively providing 59.5% of domestic output. Wind contributes a combined 8.9 GW onshore and offshore, while solar is absent post-sunset; biomass and hydro supply a steady 6.0 GW baseload. The day-ahead price of 188.9 EUR/MWh reflects tight supply conditions with heavy reliance on thermal dispatch and cross-border flows to meet evening peak demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has fled and left the furnaces to shoulder the night's burden, coal towers exhaling pale ghosts into a starless April sky. Across darkened borders, rivers of imported current flow silently into a land that hungers for more than its own fires can give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 17%
Brown coal 22%
40%
Renewable share
8.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.8 GW
Total generation
-22.0 GW
Net import
188.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 16.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
410
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the night sky; hard coal 6.3 GW sits just right of centre as a large coal plant with rectangular mechanical-draft cooling towers and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-right as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 7.5 GW spans the right third as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as distant smaller turbines on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.6 GW is a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a single smoking stack near the coal complex; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway at the far left edge. The scene is set at 20:00 in April — full night, completely dark sky of deep navy-black with no twilight glow, no sunset remnants, stars barely visible through an oppressive heavy industrial haze suggesting the high electricity price. All facilities are lit by warm sodium-orange industrial floodlights and glowing windows. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light at 12.7°C. Light wind stirs branches gently. A broad German river reflects the amber glow of the power stations. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede into the darkness toward the horizon, symbolising the massive import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour contrasts between deep blacks, warm industrial oranges, and cool steel blues — visible impasto brushwork — atmospheric depth with layers of steam and haze — meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower frameworks, CCGT exhaust geometry. The mood is brooding and industrially sublime, a nocturnal masterwork of the working landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 April 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-07T20:17 UTC · Download image