🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 22 April 2026, 01:00
Wind leads at 12.1 GW but 10.9 GW net imports are needed as gas and coal fill a cold April night.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 CEST, German consumption sits at 47.2 GW against domestic generation of 36.3 GW, requiring approximately 10.9 GW of net imports. Wind onshore provides 12.1 GW and remains the single largest source, though moderate surface wind speeds of 8.7 km/h in central Germany suggest stronger conditions along the North Sea and Baltic coastal corridors. Thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal contributes 6.7 GW, natural gas 7.2 GW, and hard coal 3.9 GW, reflecting the overnight need to backfill a residual load of 11.0 GW alongside imported power. The day-ahead price of 104.1 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with robust heating demand at 4.2 °C, meaningful import dependency, and the marginal cost of gas-fired generation setting the clearing price.
Grid poem Claude AI
Across the darkened plain, coal towers exhale pale ghosts into a starlit frost, while unseen blades carve wind into voltage. The grid drinks deeply from distant borders, its hunger outpacing the fitful breath of turbines and furnaces alike.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
51%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
-11.0 GW
Net import
104.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.2°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
328
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat, frost-dusted North German plain, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and stockpiled dark fuel visible under floodlights; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP facility with a conical silo and low chimney emitting faint smoke, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with illuminated spillway in the foreground stream; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by distant turbine silhouettes barely visible on the far horizon. Time is 1:00 AM — the sky is completely black with a scattering of cold white stars and a thin crescent moon casting almost no light; there is no twilight, no sky glow, no dawn. All structures are lit solely by sodium streetlights, orange industrial security lighting, and glowing control-room windows. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, with low haze drifting across the scene, evoking the high electricity price. The ground shows early spring — bare deciduous trees, dormant brown grass touched by light frost at 4.2 °C, no snow. Clear sky with zero cloud cover allows stars to be visible above the industrial haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, burnt sienna, and warm amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of mist between the viewer and the distant cooling towers; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, three-blade rotor, aluminium vent, and concrete tower. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale, applied to an industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 April 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-21T23:20 UTC · Download image