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Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 11:00
Wind (29 GW) and solar (23 GW) drive 90% renewable share, pushing 8.7 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 11:00 on 4 April 2026 is in a pronounced renewable surplus, with 89.8% of generation from clean sources. Wind dominates at a combined 29.0 GW (onshore 24.2 GW, offshore 4.8 GW), complemented by 23.4 GW of solar — a strong showing despite 99% cloud cover, reflecting the large installed PV base and diffuse irradiance of 167.5 W/m². Total generation of 64.3 GW against 55.6 GW consumption yields a net export of 8.7 GW, which is consistent with the day-ahead price touching zero. Thermal plant dispatch remains modest — 2.8 GW gas, 2.5 GW lignite, 1.2 GW hard coal — likely representing must-run obligations and contractual positions rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey April sky heaves with invisible force, turbines and diffuse light flooding the grid until the price of power dissolves to nothing. The coal towers stand idle-hearted, exhaling thin breath, while the surplus pours across the borders like a river with no dam.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 36%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
90%
Renewable share
29.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.4 GW
Solar
64.3 GW
Total generation
+8.8 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 167.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 24.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling spring farmland with blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea sliver; solar 23.4 GW fills the middle foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward an overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting silvery diffuse light; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-scale wood-chip plant with a ribbed cylindrical silo and thin exhaust stack at centre-left; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass plant; brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with only thin, wispy steam plumes suggesting low output; hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller stack beside them, barely smoking; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river turbine house along a stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is uniformly overcast at 99% cloud cover — a flat, pale grey-white April ceiling with no sun disc visible, yet full diffuse midday brightness illuminates the landscape evenly at 11:00 Berlin time. The temperature of 12.4 °C shapes the vegetation: fresh bright-green spring grass and early leaf buds on scattered birch and beech trees. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppression, no drama, just an immense quiet abundance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T09:20 UTC · Download image