📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 22 April 2026, 01:00
Coal, gas, and onshore wind anchor overnight generation as 8 GW net imports cover remaining German demand.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 CEST, German consumption stands at 44.2 GW against domestic generation of 36.2 GW, implying net imports of approximately 8.0 GW. Wind onshore contributes 12.1 GW, forming the backbone of renewable output, while solar is absent as expected at this hour. Thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal at 6.7 GW, natural gas at 7.0 GW, and hard coal at 3.9 GW collectively supply nearly half of domestic generation, reflecting the need to cover a residual load of 31.1 GW. The day-ahead price of 104.1 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the significant import requirement and high thermal dispatch in a cold April night with light winds.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal towers exhale their pale breath into a freezing, starless April vault, while turbine blades turn slow and ghostly on the distant ridge. The grid, hungry beyond what the homeland can feed, reaches across darkened borders to draw its missing fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 19%
51%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.2 GW
Total generation
-8.0 GW
Net import
104.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
327
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky; natural gas 7.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys emitting faint grey smoke; wind onshore 12.1 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; biomass 4.1 GW is a modest wood-chip CHP plant in the mid-ground with a conveyor belt and a single low stack with warm amber exhaust glow; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam with spillway visible in the far left background, floodlit; wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. The scene is set at 1 AM on a cold April night: the sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, stars faintly visible through clear atmosphere — zero cloud cover. The landscape is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along access roads, the amber glow of lit industrial windows, and red warning lights on stacks and turbine nacelles. Frost glints on bare early-spring grass and leafless trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the high electricity price — a subtle sickly amber haze clings near the industrial facilities. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of deep navy, black, burnt sienna, and amber — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and gas-turbine exhaust cowl. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 April 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-22T01:08 UTC · Download image