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Grid Poet — 10 April 2026, 02:00
Wind dominates at 28.2 GW overnight while 15.6 GW of fossil thermal persists, creating 4.6 GW of net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 CEST, Germany's grid is running with a 68.3% renewable share, driven almost entirely by strong wind generation at 28.2 GW combined onshore and offshore. Total generation of 49.2 GW exceeds the 44.6 GW nighttime demand by 4.6 GW, yielding a net export position of 4.6 GW. Despite the comfortable surplus, the day-ahead price remains relatively elevated at 78.8 EUR/MWh, likely reflecting cross-border demand dynamics and the sustained baseload commitment of 15.6 GW from thermal plants — brown coal at 5.1 GW, hard coal at 5.2 GW, and gas at 5.3 GW — which suggests limited flexibility or contractual obligations keeping these units online. Biomass and hydro contribute a steady 5.4 GW of dispatchable renewable baseload, rounding out a well-supplied but thermally heavy nocturnal mix.
Grid poem Claude AI
The black April sky groans under an armada of spinning blades, their invisible breath flooding the wires with more than the sleeping nation can drink. Below, coal furnaces glow like stubborn embers refusing the wind's dominion, and the surplus spills across borders like a river breaching its banks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 10%
68%
Renewable share
28.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.2 GW
Total generation
+4.6 GW
Net export
78.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
217
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across dark rolling hills into the deep distance, rotors visibly turning; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly glimmering sea line; hard coal 5.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a large power station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and tall square chimneys emitting pale grey smoke; brown coal 5.1 GW sits just left of centre as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift across the sky; natural gas 5.3 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall cylindrical exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery steam generator; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a dome-shaped wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley at far left. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black with full 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight — an oppressive, heavy overcast ceiling pressed low. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange and white industrial lighting on the power stations, red aircraft warning lights blinking atop wind turbine nacelles, and faint warm glows from scattered village windows in the mid-ground. Spring vegetation is barely visible — dark silhouettes of budding deciduous trees, wet green grass hinted by reflected facility light. The atmosphere is heavy and humid at 9.6°C, with a slight mist around the cooling tower plumes. The elevated price imparts a brooding, weighty mood to the atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, charcoal, amber, and steel grey — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant turbine rows, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 April 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-10T00:20 UTC · Download image