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Grid Poet — 10 April 2026, 20:00
Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate domestic supply as weak wind and no solar force heavy net imports at evening peak.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a fully overcast April evening, the German grid faces a substantial supply gap: domestic generation totals 31.8 GW against 55.7 GW consumption, requiring approximately 23.9 GW of net imports. Solar contribution is zero post-sunset, and wind output is weak at 3.0 GW combined, leaving thermal plants to anchor domestic supply — brown coal at 8.1 GW, natural gas at 9.4 GW, and hard coal at 5.2 GW together provide roughly 71% of domestic generation. The day-ahead price of 245.1 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply, heavy reliance on expensive gas-fired generation, and strong import dependency during peak evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of iron cloud, the furnaces burn without rest — coal and gas exhale their smoky liturgy into the darkness, while silent turbines barely stir, and the grid drinks deep from distant foreign wells. The price of light climbs like fever in the blood of April's cold, ungenerous night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 30%
Hard coal 17%
Brown coal 25%
29%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.8 GW
Total generation
-24.0 GW
Net import
245.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
477
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 The Spike
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky, illuminated from below by orange sodium floodlights; natural gas 9.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a sprawling CCGT complex with tall slender exhaust stacks crowned by heat shimmer and faint blue-white flare, its turbine halls glowing through high industrial windows; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor gantries, coal piles visible under harsh spotlights; biomass 4.7 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP facilities with squat chimneys and warm amber interior light spilling from loading bays; wind onshore 2.5 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, their rotors turning slowly, red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a barely visible pair of turbines on the extreme far-right horizon; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the right foreground. The sky is completely black to deep navy, 100% overcast with no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — it is 20:00 in April, fully nighttime. The cloud layer is low and heavy, faintly lit from below by the industrial glow in sickly orange and pale yellow tones, creating an oppressive, weighty atmosphere reflecting the 245 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is cool at 9.9°C; early spring grass and bare-branched trees frame the foreground, with patches of damp ground reflecting industrial light. Light wind barely moves the sparse vegetation. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with industrial haze — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, lattice mast, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 April 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-10T18:20 UTC · Download image