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Grid Poet — 12 April 2026, 15:00
Solar leads at 17.3 GW under overcast skies; weak wind and 5 GW lignite baseload; 11.1 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 17.3 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from diffuse and some direct radiation (173.8 W/m²) typical of an overcast but thin-cloud April afternoon. Wind generation is notably weak at 3.6 GW combined, consistent with near-calm conditions (0.5 km/h) across central Germany. Domestic generation totals 34.4 GW against 45.5 GW consumption, requiring approximately 11.1 GW of net imports. Despite the significant fossil baseload — 5.0 GW brown coal, 2.2 GW gas, and 0.7 GW hard coal — the day-ahead price sits at a modest 15.9 EUR/MWh, suggesting comfortable supply conditions across the broader European market and ample cross-border availability.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the sun still labors unseen, pressing its light through veils of cloud to power a hungry land. Yet the old furnaces of lignite breathe on, their towers exhaling pale ghosts into the stillness where no wind stirs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 50%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 15%
77%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.3 GW
Solar
34.4 GW
Total generation
-11.2 GW
Net import
15.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.7°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 173.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.3 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle spring farmland, reflecting diffuse grey-white light; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside a lignite pit mine with terraced brown earth; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with cylindrical silos and a modest smokestack; wind offshore 2.2 GW is visible as a distant row of three-blade turbines on the far horizon, rotors barely turning; natural gas 2.2 GW shows as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; wind onshore 1.4 GW is a small group of lattice-tower turbines on a low hill, blades motionless; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with white water spilling over; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller power station with a square chimney near the lignite complex. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover but luminous — a bright, flat, pearl-white ceiling typical of a mild April afternoon at 15:00 in central Germany, full diffuse daylight, no direct sun visible, no shadows on the ground. Temperature 11.7°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches mixed with fresh pale-green buds, short grass. Wind 0.5 km/h: absolute stillness, no motion in trees or flags, steam plumes rise perfectly vertical. Low price atmosphere: the overcast sky feels calm and undramatic, open and spacious. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich colour palette of grey-whites, soft greens, warm browns, visible confident brushwork, luminous cloud rendering, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete surface. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 April 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-12T15:08 UTC · Download image