Grid Poet — 27 April 2026, 06:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as near-zero wind and cold temperatures drive heavy imports and high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation of 28.1 GW covers only about half of the 54.1 GW consumption, requiring approximately 26.0 GW of net imports. A near-total wind lull at 0.4 km/h leaves onshore wind at just 2.7 GW and offshore at a negligible 0.1 GW, while solar contributes only 1.7 GW as the sun has barely risen at 06:00 in late April. Brown coal leads the domestic generation stack at 7.9 GW, followed by natural gas at 6.7 GW, biomass at 4.3 GW, and hard coal at 3.4 GW — a thermal-heavy dispatch consistent with the 165.6 EUR/MWh day-ahead price, which reflects the substantial import dependency and high marginal-cost generation on this cold, windless spring morning. The 1.5 °C temperature is unusually low for late April and is likely contributing to elevated heating demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
In the breathless dawn of a frozen spring, the furnaces roar where the silent turbines sleep. Coal smoke climbs like prayer from a land that begs the foreign wire for light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 6%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
36%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.7 GW
Solar
28.1 GW
Total generation
26.0 GW
Net import
165.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.5°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
439
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the still air; natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of CCGT plants with tall slim exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; biomass 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial wood-fired boiler buildings with squat chimneys releasing thin grey smoke; hard coal 3.4 GW sits right-of-centre as a classic coal-fired station with a single large concrete cooling tower and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; wind onshore 2.7 GW occupies the far right as a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice towers standing completely motionless against the sky; solar 1.7 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching no direct light; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir in the immediate foreground with dark water flowing beneath the plant complex. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in late April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn glow on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, stars still faintly visible overhead. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, befitting the very high electricity price — low haze clings to the ground, steam and smoke linger without dispersing in the dead-calm air. Temperature is near freezing: frost covers the bare foreground grass and the edges of bare-branched early-spring trees; patches of ice glint on puddles near the river. The wind is essentially zero — no motion in any flag, no ripple on water, turbine blades frozen in place. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich dark blues, amber sodium-lamp glows from the power stations, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: correct nacelle shapes, triple-blade rotors, aluminium panel frames, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 27 April 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-27T04:20 UTC · Download image