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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 17:00
Gas, coal, and wind anchor a 48.6 GW supply against 60.5 GW demand under full overcast, driving 11.9 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a fully overcast April evening, Germany draws 60.5 GW against 48.6 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 11.9 GW of net imports. Solar contributes 8.5 GW despite complete cloud cover and near-zero direct irradiance, reflecting diffuse-light generation from a large installed base, though output is declining rapidly toward sunset. Thermal plants are running hard: brown coal at 6.7 GW, hard coal at 6.2 GW, and natural gas at 9.3 GW collectively supply 22.2 GW, filling the gap left by moderate wind (12.3 GW combined onshore and offshore) and limited hydro. The day-ahead price of 130.4 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a high-residual-load hour where expensive gas-fired marginal units set the clearing price under tight supply conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden April sky the smokestacks breathe their coal-dark hymns, while turbines turn in muted winds and the grid, hungry beyond its own harvest, reaches across borders for the power it cannot grow. The last grey light drains westward, and every megawatt is a coin pressed into the palm of evening.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 17%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 14%
54%
Renewable share
12.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.5 GW
Solar
48.6 GW
Total generation
-11.9 GW
Net import
130.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.1 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green April fields, blades turning slowly in light wind. Natural gas 9.3 GW fills the centre-right as a cluster of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes. Solar 8.5 GW appears centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels reflecting only dull grey sky, no sunlight glinting. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the far left as massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick columns of white-grey steam rising into the overcast. Hard coal 6.2 GW sits just left of centre as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and tall brick chimneys trailing brown-tinged smoke. Biomass 4.2 GW is visible as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a squat cylindrical stack and modest steam output nestled among bare-budding deciduous trees. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background among low wooded hills. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low, uniform grey-white stratus clouds; it is 17:00 in mid-April, so the light is that of early dusk — a faint orange-red glow just barely visible along the western horizon, the rest of the sky darkening to steel grey, the landscape losing colour. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, trees with small new leaves, a few patches of mud. Temperature around 12°C — cool, damp. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, industrial ochres, and fading copper-orange on the horizon. Visible thick brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening the distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every power plant. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T15:20 UTC · Download image