Brown coal 9.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a sprawling lignite power complex with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers billowing dense white-grey steam plumes into the overcast sky, beside open-pit mines with terraced brown earth; solar 11.9 GW occupies the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the complete cloud cover, producing diffuse power but no glint of sun; natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre-right as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small chimneys with faint vapour; hard coal 2.9 GW sits right of centre as a classical coal plant with a single large chimney trailing dark smoke; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a concrete dam with controlled water release in the middle distance; wind onshore 0.9 GW and wind offshore 1.0 GW are visible in the far right background — a few three-blade turbines on lattice towers on a low ridge, their blades barely turning in the still air, and distant offshore turbines glimpsed on a grey horizon. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low, oppressive stratocumulus in shades of pewter and slate, creating a claustrophobic atmospheric weight that conveys the 94.8 EUR/MWh price tension. Morning daylight at 09:00 in March: diffuse, flat, cool-toned illumination with no shadows, no sun disc visible, everything bathed in cold grey-white ambient light. Temperature 4.5°C: dormant brown-grey winter vegetation, bare deciduous trees with skeletal branches, patches of frost on the fields, no green growth yet. The landscape is flat northern German lowland. Transmission towers with high-voltage lines cross the scene, symbolising the massive import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour despite the grey palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze near the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame — a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.