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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 08:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as full overcast and light winds suppress renewables, driving 23 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation totals 39.9 GW against 63.0 GW consumption, requiring approximately 23.1 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 18.5 GW (46.2% of generation), dominated by wind onshore at 6.5 GW and biomass at 4.5 GW, while solar output is severely curtailed at 4.3 GW under full overcast with only 1.2 W/m² direct radiation. Thermal generation is running heavily, with brown coal at 8.5 GW, natural gas at 8.4 GW, and hard coal at 4.6 GW reflecting the high residual load of 50.9 GW. The day-ahead price of 173.9 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a cool, windless, overcast spring morning where marginal thermal and import costs set the clearing price.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden April sky the furnaces roar their ancient hymn, brown coal and gas burning in unison to fill the gap the silent wind and shrouded sun refuse to close. The grid stretches its arms across borders, drawing power from distant lands like a city calling its children home.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 21%
46%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.3 GW
Solar
39.9 GW
Total generation
-23.2 GW
Net import
173.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
364
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 8.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thinner heat shimmer; hard coal 4.6 GW appears centre-right as a pair of older coal plants with stocky chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark coal piles; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the right third as a distant line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 1.4 GW is hinted far right as a handful of turbines on the misty horizon above a grey sea inlet; solar 4.3 GW appears as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light with no glint or shine; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack near the wind turbines; hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river station visible in a valley on the far right with water flowing over a low weir. The sky is entirely overcast with a heavy, low, uniform layer of grey clouds pressing down oppressively — no break in the cloud, no sun visible, diffuse flat daylight of a spring morning at 08:00. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly suffocating, hinting at the high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 8°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest buds, damp brown grass, patches of mist in the river valley. The landscape is a broad German lowland plain, industrial and agricultural. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the mid-ground carrying thick conductor bundles, visually suggesting the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich sombre colour palette of greys, ochres, and muted greens, visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower profiles, PV panel grid patterns. The scene feels like a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T08:08 UTC · Download image