Grid Poet — 30 April 2026, 22:00

Wind leads at 18.2 GW but 14 GW net imports fill the gap as evening demand outstrips domestic supply.

Grid analysis Claude AI

At 22:00, solar generation is absent and wind carries the renewable share, with 15.0 GW onshore and 3.2 GW offshore combining for a solid 18.2 GW. Brown coal (5.5 GW), natural gas (5.8 GW), and hard coal (2.1 GW) together provide 13.4 GW of thermal baseload and mid-merit dispatch, while biomass (4.6 GW) and hydro (1.3 GW) round out domestic supply. Total domestic generation of 37.5 GW falls well short of 51.5 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 14.0 GW — consistent with the elevated day-ahead price of 118.9 EUR/MWh, which reflects tight supply conditions and reliance on expensive marginal units across interconnected markets. The 64.5% renewable share is respectable for a late-evening hour and is entirely wind-driven, though insufficient to prevent substantial import dependency.

Grid poem Claude AI

The turbines hum their restless hymn across the April dark, yet hunger gnaws — fourteen gigawatts summoned from beyond the border's arc. Coal towers exhale their ancient breath while gas flames flicker thin, and the grid, stretched taut as catgut, draws the foreign current in.

Generation mix

Wind onshore 40%

Wind offshore 9%

Biomass 12%

Hydro 4%

Natural gas 15%

Hard coal 6%

Brown coal 15%

64%

Renewable share

18.3 GW

Wind (on + offshore)

0.0 GW

Solar

37.5 GW

Total generation

-14.0 GW

Net import

118.9 €/MWh

Day-ahead price

11.6°C / 17 km/h

Temp / Wind speed

Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)

4.0% / 0.0 W/m²

Cloud cover / Radiation

237

gCO₂/kWh

Image prompt

Wind onshore 15.0 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central-German hills, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly suggested North Sea strip. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers venting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps, with conveyor belts of lignite visible at their base. Natural gas 5.8 GW sits left-of-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heated exhaust, their turbine halls glowing with interior light through tall windows. Hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station behind the gas plant, a single squat stack with visible flue gas. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with rounded digesters, small chimneys, and warm amber lighting. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a modest dam structure in a river valley in the mid-ground, water glinting under artificial floodlights. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 22:00 in late April. Stars are faintly visible through only 4% cloud cover, the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light. Sodium-orange streetlights line a road in the foreground. The entire scene is painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, amber, ochre, and warm industrial orange — with visible confident brushwork, meticulous atmospheric depth, chiaroscuro lighting contrasts between dark landscape and glowing industrial facilities. Engineering details are precise: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.

Grid data: 30 April 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-30T20:20 UTC · Download image