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Grid Poet — 11 April 2026, 20:00
Strong onshore wind dominates evening generation at 28.1 GW while thermal plants and small net imports cover remaining demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a mild April evening, wind generation dominates the German grid at 32.8 GW combined (onshore 28.1 GW, offshore 4.7 GW), delivering the bulk of a 79.1% renewable share. Solar contributes nothing post-sunset, leaving biomass (4.6 GW) and hydro (1.4 GW) as the remaining renewable sources. Thermal plants are dispatched at moderate levels—brown coal at 4.1 GW, natural gas at 4.8 GW, and hard coal at 1.4 GW—to cover the gap between 49.2 GW domestic generation and 50.9 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 1.7 GW. The day-ahead price of 74.8 EUR/MWh is moderately elevated, consistent with evening demand being met partly by thermal dispatch and marginal imports under overcast, windless-at-ground-level conditions that nonetheless support strong wind generation at turbine hub heights.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand pale blades carve the blackened April sky, their tireless arcs a hymn against the coal-smoke drifting low. Beneath the overcast night the grid draws breath through imported veins, balancing its hunger on the edge of wind and fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
79%
Renewable share
32.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.2 GW
Total generation
-1.7 GW
Net import
74.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.9°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 17.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
137
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as dozens of towering three-blade wind turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers stretching across rolling central-German hills into the distance; wind offshore 4.7 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea; natural gas 4.8 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium floodlights; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the night, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a glowing industrial facility with a tall cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, warm amber light spilling from its windows, positioned between the gas plant and cooling towers; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller stack with a single plume behind the brown coal towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam and spillway in a valley at far left. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-to-black, 100% overcast with no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever—it is 20:00 in April. The atmosphere is heavy, slightly oppressive, hinting at 74.8 EUR/MWh pricing. Mild spring temperature of 16°C: fresh green vegetation on hillsides, grass beginning to grow. Ground-level air is relatively still but turbine blades spin steadily at hub height. All facilities are lit by artificial sodium-orange and white LED floodlights casting dramatic pools of light. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich deep blues, warm amber artificial glows, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 April 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-11T20:08 UTC · Download image