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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 18:00
Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate as overcast skies and light winds suppress renewables during peak evening demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a fully overcast April evening, Germany's domestic generation reaches 42.0 GW against a consumption of 61.8 GW, resulting in approximately 19.8 GW of net imports. Solar contributes only 2.7 GW as direct radiation has dropped to zero under complete cloud cover, and onshore plus offshore wind provide a modest combined 10.6 GW in light winds. Thermal generation is running heavily, with brown coal at 6.9 GW, hard coal at 5.8 GW, and natural gas at 9.6 GW forming the backbone of dispatchable supply. The day-ahead price of 148.2 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on expensive marginal gas units, though this is consistent with a high-demand spring evening under unfavorable renewable conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky, the furnaces breathe deep—coal and gas shoulder the weight of a nation's evening hunger. The turbines turn slowly, whispering of winds that never quite arrived, while unseen cables hum with borrowed power from distant lands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 6%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 16%
47%
Renewable share
10.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.7 GW
Solar
42.0 GW
Total generation
-19.9 GW
Net import
148.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
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Natural gas 9.6 GW dominates the centre-right as a cluster of modern CCGT power plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting pale steam; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white plumes rising into the heavy sky; hard coal 5.8 GW appears as a gritty coal-fired station with conveyors and a single large smokestack slightly left of centre; wind onshore 8.7 GW is represented by a long line of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the middle distance, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.5 GW is a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a green-tinged building and low exhaust near the right edge; solar 2.7 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky; hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible at the far right beside a dark river. Time of day is 18:00 in April—dusk lighting with a thin band of orange-red glow at the lower horizon fading rapidly into a dark, heavy, fully overcast sky above, oppressive and brooding atmosphere reflecting the extreme electricity price. The landscape is early-spring central German rolling hills with sparse fresh green buds on bare deciduous trees, brown-green meadows, wet ground. The air feels damp and still, with almost no wind motion in vegetation despite the slowly turning turbine blades. High-tension transmission pylons stretch across the middle ground, cables sagging with the weight of massive power flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layers of haze and steam merging into the overcast. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower structures, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor belt rigging, transformer substations. The mood is solemn and weighty, a vast industrial tableau under a suffocating grey canopy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T18:08 UTC · Download image