Brown coal 13.0 GW dominates the left half of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers, each emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-left as a cluster of smaller industrial stacks with red aviation warning lights and coal conveyors under floodlight; natural gas 6.6 GW fills the centre as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks glowing faintly against the darkness; biomass 4.1 GW sits centre-right as a group of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and low chimneys emitting thin grey smoke, illuminated by warm facility lights; onshore wind 3.5 GW appears on the far right as a handful of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air, marked by blinking red nacelle lights; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam visible in the deep background with a faint spillway gleam; offshore wind 0.1 GW is absent from the scene. The time is 04:00 — completely dark, no twilight, a deep-navy-to-black sky with a few stars visible through 54% partial cloud cover. The landscape is a flat North Rhine or Lusatian plain dusted with frost, bare deciduous trees, temperature at −0.3 °C suggested by rime on fences and frozen puddles reflecting sodium-orange light. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, conveying the high electricity price — low-hanging industrial haze drifts across the middle ground, tinted amber by facility lighting. No solar panels anywhere. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour contrasts between warm industrial glow and cold indigo darkness, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of steam and haze receding into the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness married to industrial realism. No text, no labels.