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Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 13:00
Wind and solar dominate at 48.5 GW combined, driving 9.6 GW net export and a near-zero clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on 4 April 2026, Germany's grid is comfortably in renewable oversupply. Wind onshore (21.6 GW) and solar (26.9 GW) together provide 48.5 GW, while total generation of 62.9 GW against 53.3 GW consumption yields a net export position of 9.6 GW. The day-ahead price has settled at effectively zero, consistent with the 91.1% renewable share and ample cross-border transmission demand. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels—brown coal at 2.0 GW, hard coal at 1.0 GW, and gas at 2.6 GW—reflecting minimum stable generation constraints and ancillary service commitments rather than economic dispatch signals.
Grid poem Claude AI
A spring noon overflows with invisible rivers of wind and diffuse light, pressing power into wires faster than a nation can drink. The old furnaces idle at their lowest embers, humbled witnesses to a sky that has learned to do their work.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 43%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
91%
Renewable share
25.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.9 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
+9.6 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 161.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.9 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green spring hillsides under diffuse midday light filtered through full overcast; wind onshore 21.6 GW fills the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, blades turning steadily in moderate wind across rolling farmland with early April pale-green wheat; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on a hazy horizon line at far left; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-scale wood-chip CHP plants with modest chimneys and small steam wisps in the middle distance; natural gas 2.6 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and minimal exhaust plumes tucked behind a hedgerow; brown coal 2.0 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin, nearly transparent steam wisps, partially obscured behind spring trees at far left background; hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller coal stack barely visible beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with green mossy sluice gates on a stream in the foreground. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover yet bright—flat white-grey cumulus layer lit from above, 13°C spring atmosphere, no direct sun visible but strong diffuse illumination casting soft shadowless light. Vegetation is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, bright green meadows, a few wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity—rich colour palette of soft greens, cool greys, and creamy whites, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T11:20 UTC · Download image