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Grid Poet — 16 April 2026, 19:00
Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate domestic generation as fading renewables and high imports drive prices to 167 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 19:00 on a mild April evening, German domestic generation totals 35.3 GW against consumption of 59.5 GW, requiring approximately 24.2 GW of net imports. Solar output has largely faded to 2.3 GW as sunset approaches, while onshore and offshore wind contribute a combined 3.7 GW under light winds of 5.2 km/h. Thermal generation is carrying the bulk of domestic supply, with brown coal at 8.5 GW, natural gas at 9.7 GW, hard coal at 5.0 GW, and biomass at 4.6 GW. The day-ahead price of 166.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance, significant import dependency, and the high marginal cost of fossil dispatch during a period of low renewable availability.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun retreats behind a veil of coal-smoke and cloud, yielding the grid to furnaces that burn through the gathering dark. Across the borders, rivers of current flow inward like tributaries feeding a restless, insatiable sea.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 7%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 27%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 24%
34%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
35.3 GW
Total generation
-24.2 GW
Net import
166.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
53% / 63.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
438
gCO₂/kWh
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Natural gas 9.7 GW dominates the centre-right as a sprawling complex of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat plumes; brown coal 8.5 GW fills the left quarter with massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam columns and adjacent open-pit mine terraces; hard coal 5.0 GW appears as a dark gritty power station with conveyor belts and a pair of tall chimneys trailing grey smoke, positioned left of centre; biomass 4.6 GW sits in the mid-ground as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip storage domes and short stacks releasing pale wisps; wind onshore 3.0 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a low ridge in the far right background, blades turning slowly in light breeze; solar 2.3 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching the last weak amber glow of sunset; wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant grey sea horizon at far right; hydro 1.5 GW is shown as a modest dam and powerhouse nestled in a green valley in the far background. The lighting is late dusk at 19:00 in April: the lower horizon glows deep orange-red fading rapidly upward into darkening indigo-grey sky, with 53 percent cloud cover rendered as broken stratocumulus lit from below in copper and salmon tones. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme price — a thick industrial haze hangs across the middle distance, blurring the cooling towers' steam into the clouded sky. Spring vegetation at 17°C: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees frame the foreground. High-voltage transmission pylons stride across the scene from left to right, cables catching the last amber light, symbolising the massive import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing horizon and the darkening industrial skyline — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic profile, every PV panel frame is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 16 April 2026, 19:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-16T19:08 UTC · Download image