Brown coal 12.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 11.1 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer, their steel surfaces reflecting amber facility lighting; wind onshore 7.2 GW occupies the centre-right as a receding line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers with slowly turning rotors, each nacelle marked by a blinking red aviation warning light; hard coal 4.7 GW appears right of centre as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure, coal piles faintly visible under white arc lamps; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested in the far right background as tiny red lights dotting a black horizon line above a barely visible North Sea; biomass 4.2 GW sits in the right foreground as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a low corrugated-metal building and a gently smoking vent; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam visible in the far distance at right, with a faint cascade of white water caught in a spotlight. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, fully overcast at 96% cloud cover so no stars are visible, with the heavy clouds faintly illuminated from below by the collective orange industrial glow of the power plants. The ground is a flat early-spring German lowland landscape, dormant brown grass and bare deciduous trees at 5.3°C, patches of lingering frost. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 149 EUR/MWh price — thick low clouds pressing down, hazy industrial steam merging with overcast. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, dramatic contrast between inky darkness and warm industrial light — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower geometry, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.