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Grid Poet — 13 April 2026, 23:00
Gas, coal, and onshore wind share nocturnal load as 8.4 GW net imports bridge a supply gap under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a fully overcast spring night, Germany draws 50.7 GW against 42.3 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 8.4 GW of net imports. Wind onshore contributes a solid 12.7 GW, but with offshore wind at only 1.6 GW and solar naturally absent, thermal plants carry substantial load: natural gas at 10.2 GW, brown coal at 6.9 GW, and hard coal at 4.9 GW collectively supply 52% of generation. The day-ahead price of 122.6 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and reliance on marginal gas units, a routine outcome for a high-consumption night with moderate wind and no solar contribution.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of coal-dark cloud, the turbines hum their vigil while furnaces breathe amber through the hours, buying time until the sun returns. The grid stretches taut as a wire in the wind, its hunger fed by flame and distant mills.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 16%
48%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.3 GW
Total generation
-8.4 GW
Net import
122.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
339
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 10.2 GW dominates the centre-left as a sprawling CCGT power station with tall single exhaust stacks venting pale heat plumes into the night; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam columns rising against the black sky; hard coal 4.9 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and conveyor belt silhouette just right of centre; wind onshore 12.7 GW spans the entire right third and recedes into the distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in slow rhythm; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbine lights on the far horizon; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a compact wood-chip plant with a modest stack and warm amber glow near the centre-right foreground; hydro 1.5 GW is a low concrete dam with dark rushing water in the immediate foreground, lit by a single sodium floodlight. The scene is set at 23:00 in central Germany in mid-April — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no stars visible through 100% cloud cover, creating an oppressive low ceiling reflecting the high electricity price. The atmosphere is heavy and humid at 8.7 °C, with light mist clinging to the ground and the faint smell of damp spring earth implied by new green grass and budding trees barely visible in the sodium-yellow glow of industrial perimeter lights. Wind is gentle at 4.5 km/h so turbine blades rotate slowly. The colour palette is dominated by deep navy-black sky, warm orange-amber industrial lighting, and ghostly white steam plumes. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro, dramatic tonal depth — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and CCGT exhaust stack is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 April 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-13T21:20 UTC · Download image