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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 18:00
Gas, coal, and moderate wind supply a 60.8 GW evening peak under full overcast, requiring ~16 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on an overcast April evening, Germany draws 60.8 GW against 44.9 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 15.9 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 50.6% of generation, led by 10.5 GW onshore wind and 4.2 GW biomass, though solar is fading to a negligible 3.9 GW under full cloud cover at dusk. Thermal plants are running hard to cover the residual load of 16.0 GW, with brown coal at 6.7 GW, hard coal at 6.1 GW, and natural gas at 9.4 GW — all consistent with an evening demand peak under weak renewable conditions. The day-ahead price of 148.2 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply picture and heavy reliance on marginal fossil units, a typical spring evening outcome when solar output collapses and wind remains moderate.
Grid poem Claude AI
The overcast sky presses down like a grey iron lid upon a land still hungry for light, and the coal fires burn their ancient debt into the dusk. Turbines turn in the dimming fields, but tonight the grid reaches far beyond its borders, drawing power through cables stretched taut as a held breath.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 9%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 15%
51%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.9 GW
Solar
44.9 GW
Total generation
-16.0 GW
Net import
148.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
326
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.5 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers and detailed nacelles, rotors turning slowly in light wind, stretching across rolling green spring fields. Natural gas 9.4 GW fills the centre-right as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left side as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick billowing steam into the heavy sky. Hard coal 6.1 GW appears just left of centre as a large conventional power station with blocky boiler houses, conveyor belts of black coal, and twin chimneys trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with rounded storage silos and a modest stack, nestled between the coal and gas plants. Solar 3.9 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast sky, clearly producing little. Hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley on the far left, with a modest flow of water. Wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines barely visible on a grey North Sea horizon at the far right edge. The sky is 100% overcast at dusk — 18:00 in April — with a narrow band of muted orange-red glow along the lowest horizon line, rapidly fading upward into heavy slate-grey and charcoal clouds that feel oppressive and low, reflecting the 148 EUR/MWh price tension. The atmosphere is thick, humid, moody. Early spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and bare-branching trees just beginning to leaf out, temperature around 11°C suggesting cool dampness. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy industrial depth, Caspar David Friedrich's sublime mood merged with meticulous engineering accuracy of each power technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T16:20 UTC · Download image