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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 13:00
Solar leads at 24.4 GW under full overcast; gas, lignite, and hard coal fill the renewable gap with 4.1 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on a fully overcast April Sunday, solar generation reaches 24.4 GW despite complete cloud cover, reflecting the strength of Germany's installed PV capacity under diffuse radiation conditions—though output is well below clear-sky potential given only 6 W/m² direct irradiance. Wind contributes a combined 10.1 GW onshore and offshore, modest for the installed base and consistent with the light 8.1 km/h surface winds. Fossil thermal generation remains substantial: brown coal at 6.1 GW, hard coal at 5.9 GW, and natural gas at 8.5 GW collectively supply 20.5 GW, called upon to fill the gap left by underperforming renewables relative to the 64.6 GW demand. Domestic generation totals 60.5 GW against 64.6 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 4.1 GW; the day-ahead price of 97.4 EUR/MWh reflects tight supply conditions and the marginal cost of gas-fired dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the panels strain to drink what little light the clouds permit, while coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the grey. The grid groans softly, calling across borders for the gigawatts it cannot summon from its own restless soil.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 40%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 10%
66%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
60.5 GW
Total generation
-4.1 GW
Net import
97.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
225
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.4 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky with no direct sunlight; natural gas 8.5 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting into the overcast; hard coal 5.9 GW sits beside them as a large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a tall chimney trailing grey smoke; wind onshore 8.2 GW is represented by a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is a modest biogas facility with green cylindrical digesters and a small stack with faint vapour; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with flowing water at the lower-right edge. The time is midday but the sky is a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of 100% stratus cloud—no blue, no sun disc, no shadows—rendered in brooding greys and muted silvers conveying high electricity prices. Temperature is cool spring at 10.6°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches mixed with fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, damp green grass. The atmosphere is thick and weighty, pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork visible in the cloud mass, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature and concrete texture, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into haze. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T11:20 UTC · Download image