📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 22 April 2026, 05:00
Coal, gas, and moderate wind power a cold pre-dawn hour with zero solar and 11.6 GW net imports.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 05:00 on a clear, near-freezing April morning, Germany draws 46.1 GW against 34.5 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 11.6 GW of net imports. Wind contributes a combined 10.0 GW (onshore 9.3, offshore 0.7), modest given the low 3.0 km/h surface wind speeds in central Germany — output likely concentrated in coastal and northern regions. Thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal at 6.8 GW, natural gas at 7.6 GW, and hard coal at 4.5 GW collectively supply 18.9 GW, reflecting the pre-dawn absence of solar and the need to cover the import gap's residual demand. The day-ahead price of 121.2 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a high-residual-load, zero-solar overnight hour where expensive gas-fired marginal units are setting the clearing price.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of frost, the furnaces breathe their amber hymn into the dark, feeding a nation before the sun remembers its name. Turbine blades turn slow and blind on distant ridgelines, tracing pale arcs against the coming dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 20%
45%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.5 GW
Total generation
-11.7 GW
Net import
121.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.8°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
366
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 7.6 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with interior light through tall windows; hard coal 4.5 GW sits centre-right as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack, coal piles faintly visible under floodlights; wind onshore 9.3 GW spans the right third of the composition as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into the distance along a frost-white ridgeline, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a few tiny turbine silhouettes on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and steam wisp between the gas plant and coal station; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with water gleaming under a single floodlight in the lower foreground. The sky is deep pre-dawn blue-grey — the first faint pale streak of dawn barely visible at the eastern horizon, stars still faintly present overhead; the atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the 121.2 EUR/MWh price, with low haze and frost crystals in the air. The ground is covered in light frost on bare early-spring grass and dormant hedgerows, temperature near freezing. Air is still, almost no wind motion at ground level. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich, dark colour palette of deep blues, amber industrial glows, and cold grey-whites, visible confident brushwork, meticulous atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, technically accurate engineering detail on every structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 April 2026, 05:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-22T05:08 UTC · Download image