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Grid Poet — 9 April 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 22.3 GW but 10.9 GW net imports needed as thermal plants and evening demand drive prices to 127 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on an overcast April evening, solar generation has dropped to zero and wind remains the dominant source at 22.3 GW combined (onshore 17.5 GW, offshore 4.8 GW), providing 47% of total generation. Thermal plants are running hard to cover the evening demand peak: brown coal at 7.3 GW, natural gas at 6.7 GW, and hard coal at 5.5 GW together supply 41% of generation. Domestic generation of 47.5 GW falls short of 58.4 GW consumption, requiring approximately 10.9 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 127.3 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on marginal-cost thermal units during this high-demand evening hour.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal embers glow beneath the windswept dark, where turbines turn like sentinels against the starless arc. The grid draws breath from foreign shores tonight, a nation's hunger outpacing its own fractured light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 15%
59%
Renewable share
22.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
127.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning moderately; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying lignite visible at their base; natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.5 GW sits just behind the gas plants as a dark blocky power station with a single large chimney and coal stockpile; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and woodchip yard in the centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure with water cascading, tucked into the lower-left valley. Time is 20:00 in April — the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight remains, 100% cloud cover so no stars visible, an oppressive heavy overcast pressing down. The scene is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along a road threading between the facilities, warm yellow-white industrial floodlights on the power plants, and the faint amber glow from cooling tower interiors. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and early-leafing deciduous trees, barely visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, slightly hazy from steam mixing with cloud-base, conveying the tension of a high-price evening hour. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigos, warm ambers, and cool greys; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into darkness; meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 April 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-09T20:17 UTC · Download image