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Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 12:00
Wind and solar dominate at nearly 90% renewable share, driving net exports of 10.5 GW and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 4 April, the German grid is producing 65.5 GW against 55.0 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of 10.5 GW. Wind generation is strong at 26.8 GW combined (onshore 22.6 GW, offshore 4.2 GW), and despite 96% cloud cover, solar contributes a notable 26.6 GW — likely from diffuse irradiance across Germany's large installed PV base, supplemented by 140 W/m² of direct radiation breaking through thinner cloud layers. The renewable share of 89.7% has pushed the day-ahead price to −0.2 EUR/MWh, essentially zero, reflecting ample supply and limited flexibility in baseload thermal units still online: brown coal at 2.5 GW, hard coal at 1.3 GW, and gas at 3.0 GW remain dispatched, likely due to contractual obligations or system stability requirements. This is a routine spring oversupply pattern, with cross-border exports absorbing the excess.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines churn and panels drink the grey, a kingdom glutted on the wind's wild tithe. The price falls through the floor like April rain, and surplus power floods across the borders, restless, seeking a home.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 41%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
90%
Renewable share
26.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.6 GW
Solar
65.5 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
-0.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 140.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade wind turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green spring farmland, blades turning briskly in moderate wind. Solar 26.6 GW fills the centre-left foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south, their glass surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light under heavy overcast. Wind offshore 4.2 GW appears in the far background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass power station with a single stack emitting white steam, nestled among the turbines at mid-ground right. Natural gas 3.0 GW occupies the far left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with twin exhaust stacks and a modest vapour plume. Brown coal 2.5 GW sits behind the gas plant as two smaller hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam columns rising into the overcast. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a single coal-fired boiler house with a rectangular stack, barely visible at the far left edge. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir along a stream in the left foreground. The sky is full midday brightness but almost entirely covered by a thick grey-white cloud layer at 96% coverage, with only thin seams allowing faint hints of sunlight to diffuse through — no direct sun visible but the scene is evenly and softly illuminated. Spring foliage is fresh pale green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, temperature around 13°C gives a mild atmosphere with no frost. The near-zero electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open, expansive composition with no oppressive weight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower hyperboloid curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T10:20 UTC · Download image