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Grid Poet — 14 April 2026, 14:00
Solar leads at 24.4 GW with brown coal and gas providing 13.2 GW of thermal backup to meet 61.8 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 24.4 GW, reflecting strong mid-April irradiance despite 56% cloud cover, with direct radiation at 432.5 W/m². Combined wind output of 6.5 GW is modest, consistent with light winds of 14 km/h. Brown coal at 7.0 GW and hard coal at 3.5 GW remain dispatched alongside 6.2 GW of gas, indicating conventional baseload and mid-merit plant are needed to cover the 8.4 GW gap between renewable output and demand. Germany is a net importer of approximately 8.4 GW this hour, and the day-ahead price of 108.9 EUR/MWh reflects the cost of thermal and imported generation required to balance the residual load.
Grid poem Claude AI
The spring sun blazes across silicon fields, gilding half the nation in light—yet beneath the bright canopy, coal towers exhale their ancient breath, steadying the grid where photons alone cannot reach.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 46%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 13%
68%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
-8.4 GW
Net import
108.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
56.0% / 432.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
215
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.4 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green spring hillsides, angled south and glinting under partially cloudy skies; brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the air; natural gas 6.2 GW appears as two compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks and thinner grey plumes positioned just left of centre; wind onshore 5.7 GW is rendered as a line of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-fired plant with a squat chimney and a pile of woodchips beside it on the far left; hard coal 3.5 GW is a pair of large boiler houses with rectangular stacks emitting grey smoke, positioned behind the brown coal towers; hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete dam with water spilling over a weir tucked into a wooded valley on the far right; wind offshore 0.8 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond the solar fields. Time of day is 14:00 in central Germany in mid-April: full bright daylight with a high sun, sky 56% covered by mid-level cumulus clouds allowing strong direct sunlight to break through in dramatic shafts, spring-green deciduous trees with fresh leaves, grass bright and lush, temperature mild at 13.6°C. The atmosphere is heavy and somewhat oppressive despite the sunshine, with a warm haze near the thermal plants suggesting high electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective from foreground cooling towers to distant offshore turbines—yet every piece of engineering rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: three-blade rotor hubs, nacelle housings, lattice transmission towers with catenary wires, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 April 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-14T12:20 UTC · Download image