📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 8 April 2026, 18:00
Coal, gas, solar, and wind all run hard as 10.7 GW of imports fill the early-evening demand gap.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on April 8, domestic generation of 46.6 GW falls short of 57.3 GW consumption, requiring approximately 10.7 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 27.7 GW (59.3%), led by 10.9 GW of late-afternoon solar — notable given full cloud cover, though 148.5 W/m² of direct radiation indicates broken or thin cloud at lower angles — alongside 10.9 GW of combined wind. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.6 GW, hard coal at 5.6 GW, and gas at 5.7 GW together supply 18.9 GW, reflecting the elevated residual load of 35.5 GW as evening demand rises and solar begins to taper. The day-ahead price of 134.2 EUR/MWh is consistent with tight supply-demand conditions during the early-evening ramp, with imports and coal running near capacity to cover the gap.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun sinks beneath a leaden veil while furnaces roar to fill the void, towers breathing white plumes into a copper dusk. Turbine blades carve the last light from a sky heavy with the cost of keeping the lamps lit.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 23%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 16%
59%
Renewable share
10.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.9 GW
Solar
46.6 GW
Total generation
-10.7 GW
Net import
134.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 148.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
284
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into an overcast sky; hard coal 5.6 GW sits just right of centre as a slightly smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a tall chimney stack emitting pale exhaust; natural gas 5.7 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT blocks with sleek single exhaust stacks venting translucent heat shimmer beside the coal plant; solar 10.9 GW fills the right third of the middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the low western horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a muted amber glow; wind onshore 7.0 GW rises as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green spring hills in the right background, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a wood-clad biomass CHP plant with a moderate stack and stored wood-chip piles in the centre-left mid-ground; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower foreground stream. Time of day is 18:00 in early April — dusk lighting with a deep orange-red glow confined to the lower horizon in the west, the sky above darkening from slate grey to dusky blue, full overcast cloud layer textured and heavy, giving an oppressive atmospheric weight reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass and budding deciduous trees at 16°C. Light wind barely stirs the grass. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze between the industrial structures, dramatic chiaroscuro from the fading dusk light catching steam plumes and panel glass. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling-tower ribbing, every PV cell grid line. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 April 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-08T18:17 UTC · Download image