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Grid Poet — 10 April 2026, 13:00
Solar leads at 24 GW with coal and gas filling the residual load as Germany imports 4 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 24.2 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from strong diffuse and direct radiation (349.5 W/m²) typical of an April midday. Combined wind output of 8.0 GW is moderate, with onshore turbines contributing 5.7 GW on light winds of 11.5 km/h. Brown coal at 7.9 GW and hard coal at 4.7 GW provide a substantial conventional baseload, supplemented by 4.9 GW of natural gas, reflecting the 26.8 GW residual load that renewables cannot cover. Domestic generation falls 4.0 GW short of the 59.0 GW consumption level, indicating net imports of approximately 4.0 GW; the day-ahead price of 88.9 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with the thermal generation required to meet midday demand on a day when wind underperforms relative to solar.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the sun fights through in secret, flooding silicon fields with invisible fire. Coal towers exhale their ancient breath as the grid drinks deep, four gigawatts borrowed from distant lands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 14%
68%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.2 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
-4.0 GW
Net import
88.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 349.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
226
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, angled southward under a bright but completely overcast white-grey sky at 1 PM; brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four towering hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling; wind onshore 5.7 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a ridge in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 4.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a small dry cooling unit positioned centre-right behind the solar fields; hard coal 4.7 GW shows as a second thermal station to the far left with a tall brick chimney and coal conveyors, slightly smaller than the lignite plant; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested by a thin strip of grey North Sea horizon visible through a gap in the terrain at far centre, with small white turbine silhouettes on the water; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a modest stack and a pile of woodchips near the right foreground edge; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse tucked into a stream valley in the lower right corner. The sky is uniformly overcast with a heavy, oppressive blanket of stratocumulus reflecting the high electricity price — no blue sky visible — yet the daylight is bright and flat, shadowless, with a cool 10 °C spring feel: early spring grass is pale green, trees just beginning to bud, no full foliage yet. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into haze, dramatic scale contrast between the immense cooling towers and the human-scale solar arrays, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, conveyor belt, and cooling tower rib. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-10T13:17 UTC · Download image