Brown coal 12.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing turbine halls; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts; onshore wind 5.8 GW stretches across the right quarter as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a squat smokestack and steam wisps between the coal and wind installations; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far right background with water cascading under floodlights; offshore wind 0.2 GW is barely visible as a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with a scattering of cold white stars and a thin crescent moon low on the horizon—absolutely no twilight, no sky glow, no sunset remnants. The 4.6°C late-winter air is suggested by frost on bare branches of dormant trees and patches of old snow on the ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a thick industrial haze diffusing the artificial lights and lending an amber-tinged weight to the scene, reflecting the 151.8 EUR/MWh price tension. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the sodium-lit industrial foreground and the star-pricked darkness above, atmospheric depth achieved through layered haze and receding silhouettes, meticulous engineering detail on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.