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Grid Poet — 2 April 2026, 18:00
Wind and coal anchor domestic supply while 22 GW of net imports fill the evening demand gap under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on April 2, Germany's 41.2 GW of domestic generation falls well short of 63.3 GW consumption, requiring approximately 22.1 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 24.4 GW (59.3% of domestic generation), led by wind onshore at 9.9 GW and solar at 5.8 GW — the latter in its final productive hour before sunset. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 7.8 GW and hard coal at 5.9 GW together providing a third of domestic supply, supplemented by 3.1 GW of gas. The day-ahead price of 134.4 EUR/MWh reflects the significant import dependency during this evening demand peak, consistent with high consumption, fading solar, and moderate but insufficient wind output.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines turn beneath a leaden April sky, but their breath alone cannot fill the vast lungs of industry and home. Coal towers exhale their ancient warmth into the dusk while, beyond the borders, borrowed electrons stream through copper veins to keep the lights alive.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 19%
59%
Renewable share
13.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.8 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
-22.0 GW
Net import
134.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 69.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
299
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; hard coal 5.9 GW sits just right of centre as a large coal-fired plant with tall chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; wind onshore 9.9 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green spring hills, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a valley; solar 5.8 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gently sloping meadow, reflecting dim diffused light; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the coal complex; biomass 4.1 GW is represented as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a domed fuel storage and thin smoke trail, nestled between the coal plant and the wind farm; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam with white water cascading, visible in the lower-left foreground. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in early April — a rapidly fading orange-red glow clings to the low western horizon while the upper sky darkens to slate grey and deep blue-grey, heavy with 92% cloud cover pressing down oppressively, suggesting the high electricity price. The landscape is early-spring central German terrain: fresh pale-green grass, bare-branched oaks just beginning to bud, muddy fields. Temperature around 13°C gives a cool, damp atmosphere with faint mist in the valleys. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines on steel pylons run prominently through the middle ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of ochres, slate blues, and muted greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into haze. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, nacelle housings, cooling tower parabolic geometry, PV panel grid patterns. The mood is weighty and industrial yet beautiful — a masterwork painting of the modern energy landscape at twilight. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 April 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-02T16:21 UTC · Download image