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Grid Poet — 7 April 2026, 23:00
Wind, brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a tight late-night grid requiring 10 GW of net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on April 7, the German grid draws 51.2 GW against 41.1 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 10.1 GW of net imports. Wind contributes a combined 13.5 GW (onshore 12.4 GW, offshore 1.1 GW), while the thermal fleet runs heavily: brown coal at 8.2 GW, natural gas at 7.3 GW, and hard coal at 6.5 GW collectively supply over half the domestic output. The day-ahead price of 118.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a late-evening hour, reflecting tight supply conditions with solar unavailable and wind output moderate rather than strong; dispatchable thermal and imports are filling a sizable gap. Biomass at 4.4 GW and hydro at 1.3 GW provide steady baseload contributions, bringing the renewable share to 46.6 %.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath an April sky stripped of sun, coal furnaces and gas turbines roar into the dark, their orange glow answering the wind's insufficient hymn. The grid reaches across borders with outstretched copper arms, buying the megawatts the night refuses to yield.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 20%
47%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.1 GW
Total generation
-10.1 GW
Net import
118.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
40.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by amber industrial floodlights; hard coal 6.5 GW sits just right of centre as a large power station with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts, and tall chimneys trailing thin smoke; natural gas 7.3 GW appears centre-right as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with slim steel exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer; wind onshore 12.4 GW spans the right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a green-lit hopper and modest chimney near the coal station; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in the mid-ground valley with white spillway water catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, with 40 % cloud cover creating patches of faintly lighter dark grey among stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — a high-price hour — with dense industrial haze pooling in the lowlands. Early spring vegetation: bare branches with the first tiny leaf buds, dormant brown grass, patches of cold mud. Temperature around 8 °C conveyed by faint ground mist. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along an access road winding between the plants. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede into the distance, symbolising import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigo, coal-black, furnace orange, and steam white — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 7 April 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-07T21:20 UTC · Download image