📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 28 April 2026, 08:00
Solar leads at 19.7 GW despite full overcast; 9 GW net imports needed as thermal and wind support a 60.4 GW load.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 08:00 on this overcast April morning, Germany is generating 51.4 GW against 60.4 GW of consumption, requiring approximately 9.0 GW of net imports. Despite 100% cloud cover and only 5 W/m² direct radiation, solar contributes a notable 19.7 GW—predominantly diffuse irradiance on a heavily overcast spring day—making it the single largest source. Wind generation is moderate at 11.1 GW combined, consistent with the light 5.9 km/h surface winds recorded in central Germany. Thermal generation remains substantial: brown coal at 6.8 GW, gas at 4.7 GW, and hard coal at 3.2 GW together provide 14.7 GW, reflecting the need to firm up supply against the import requirement, which is also reflected in the elevated day-ahead price of 112.3 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sky sealed in pewter, the turbines turn slowly and the coal fires burn deep, as a nation draws more than its own land can yield. The panels drink what feeble light the clouds allow, while across the borders, electrons flow inward like a quiet tide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 38%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
11.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.7 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
-9.0 GW
Net import
112.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 5.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
200
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.7 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting only the flat grey light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the leaden clouds; wind onshore 9.0 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles turning slowly on a distant ridge behind the solar fields; natural gas 4.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant in the left-centre with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller steam plume; hard coal 3.2 GW sits adjacent as a blocky industrial building with a single large smokestack; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a smaller wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a modest chimney; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines on the far horizon line as if seen from a coastal vantage; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a forested valley in the far right background. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy stratiform clouds at 08:00 in full but diffuse daylight—no sun disk visible, no shadows on the ground, a flat oppressive grey ceiling pressing down. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, hinting at the high electricity price. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched oaks and beeches just beginning to bud, pale green grass still short, temperature around 8°C suggested by faint mist near the ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with layers of haze between foreground solar panels and distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, PV module frame, and cooling tower hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 April 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-28T07:53 UTC · Download image