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Grid Poet — 11 April 2026, 02:00
Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate a tight 2 AM grid requiring 8.7 GW net imports amid low wind.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a cool April night, German consumption sits at 42.1 GW against domestic generation of 33.4 GW, requiring approximately 8.7 GW of net imports. Thermal baseload dominates: brown coal provides 7.3 GW, natural gas 7.9 GW, and hard coal 4.9 GW, together accounting for 60% of domestic output. Wind generation is modest at a combined 7.6 GW onshore and offshore, consistent with the low 5 km/h surface winds observed in central Germany. The day-ahead price of 114.4 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance and the heavy reliance on marginal gas-fired generation to meet load.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal furnaces breathe their ancient heat into the frozen dark, while turbines stand half-still beneath a starless April sky. The grid reaches across borders with open hands, buying the megawatts the night refuses to yield.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 22%
40%
Renewable share
7.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.4 GW
Total generation
-8.7 GW
Net import
114.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
53.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
406
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall slender exhaust stacks and illuminated control buildings; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-right as a heavy industrial block with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure; wind onshore 6.8 GW spans the right third as a row of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning very slowly; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by distant tiny turbines on a dark horizon line; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and warm interior glow near the coal station; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible at the far right edge. TIME: 2 AM, completely dark — black sky with no twilight, no moon visible, partial cloud cover obscuring some stars. All facilities lit by harsh sodium-orange industrial floodlights and safety beacons on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a faint haze hanging over the thermal plants suggesting high electricity prices. Temperature near freezing: patches of frost on bare early-spring ground, dormant grass, leafless deciduous trees silhouetted against facility lights. No solar panels anywhere. Foreground: a dark ploughed field with frost crystals catching artificial light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime darkness merged with meticulous industrial realism. Rich deep navy, amber, and charcoal tones, visible brushwork, atmospheric depth. Each technology rendered with correct engineering detail: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with realistic steam dynamics, gas CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 April 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-11T00:20 UTC · Download image