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Grid Poet — 28 April 2026, 20:00
Strong onshore wind leads generation but 13.5 GW net imports required as evening demand outstrips domestic supply.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on an April evening, wind generation dominates at 24.1 GW combined (onshore 20.3 GW, offshore 3.8 GW), supported by a firm baseload block of 6.7 GW brown coal, 4.9 GW gas, 4.6 GW biomass, and 3.3 GW hard coal. Solar is effectively offline at 0.4 GW as expected post-sunset. Domestic generation totals 45.3 GW against consumption of 58.8 GW, requiring approximately 13.5 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 121 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply-demand balance and import dependency, with all available thermal capacity dispatched to complement strong but insufficient wind output.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines howl across a darkened land where coal fires burn to meet the evening's hand. Imports flow like rivers through the night, bridging the gap no single flame can light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
45.3 GW
Total generation
-13.5 GW
Net import
121.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 60.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
228
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the deep distance, rotors visibly spinning in brisk wind; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps of the plant complex; natural gas 4.9 GW appears left of centre as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a gently smoking chimney and stacked timber piles, warmly lit from within; hard coal 3.3 GW sits beside the brown coal plant as a smaller conventional station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts lit by yellow spotlights; wind offshore 3.8 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far horizon where the land meets a faint coastal strip; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a modest dam structure in a valley fold with white water cascading, lit by a single floodlight; solar 0.4 GW is essentially absent — no panels visible. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-to-black April night with no twilight glow, scattered stars barely visible through a perfectly clear atmosphere (0% cloud cover). Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees — is visible only where artificial light falls. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a brooding tension in the thick industrial steam mixing with the dark sky. The wind turbines' red aviation warning lights blink in rhythmic patterns across the hills. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto colour, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the sodium-orange industrial glow, atmospheric depth achieved through layered recession of turbines into haze, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 April 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-28T18:20 UTC · Download image