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Grid Poet — 21 April 2026, 21:00
Wind leads at 17.2 GW but 19 GW of fossil thermal and 16.9 GW net imports cover the post-sunset evening peak.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on an April evening, Germany's 58.9 GW demand substantially exceeds domestic generation of 42.0 GW, requiring approximately 16.9 GW of net imports. Wind generation is solid at 17.2 GW combined (onshore 15.7 GW, offshore 1.5 GW), but with solar absent after sunset, the renewable share settles at 54.8% and the thermal fleet is running hard: brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 7.4 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 129.6 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and the cost of dispatching significant fossil capacity alongside heavy cross-border flows to meet evening peak load.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines hum beneath a moonless vault, their pale arms reaching where the sunlight failed. Coal fires glow like ancient wounds in the earth, burning the price of darkness into the April night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
55%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.0 GW
Total generation
-16.9 GW
Net import
129.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
306
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German farmland, their rotors turning in moderate wind; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium floodlights of a lignite power station; natural gas 7.4 GW appears centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular heat-recovery steam generators, their stacks tipped with small flames; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single large conventional power station with a tall chimney and conveyor belts feeding a coal bunker; biomass 4.7 GW is represented centre-right by a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and low stacks emitting thin wisps of pale smoke; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure near a river in the middle distance; wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by faint red aviation warning lights on distant turbines along the far horizon. TIME: 21:00 in April — fully dark, deep navy-to-black sky with no twilight glow, a few stars faintly visible through perfectly clear skies (0% cloud cover), the landscape lit only by the orange-yellow sodium streetlights of nearby towns, white industrial floodlights on the power stations, and the red blinking lights atop turbine nacelles. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched trees beginning to leaf out, cool-toned grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying high electricity prices — a dense, brooding quality to the darkness, the steam plumes from the cooling towers billowing massively upward and catching the artificial light. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into blackness, luminous artificial light contrasting with the dark vault of sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 21 April 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-21T19:20 UTC · Download image