Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly gleaming North Sea inlet. Brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting heavy white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Hard coal 5.9 GW sits just right of centre as a coal-fired plant with rectangular boiler houses, tall chimneys trailing darker smoke, and conveyor belts visible under floodlights. Natural gas 5.6 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with single slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour plumes, positioned between the coal plants. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-fired CHP facilities with rounded silos and low stacks emitting thin pale smoke, nestled in a mid-ground clearing. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam visible in the lower-left corner, water glinting under a single floodlight. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The sky is completely black, heavy with 88% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. The only light sources are industrial: orange and white sodium streetlights, facility floodlights casting harsh pools on wet tarmac, and the ruddy glow from furnace openings. Temperature is 3°C in late March: bare deciduous trees with the faintest buds, patches of frost on dormant grass, breath-mist plausible. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy — thick low clouds press down, steam and smoke merge into a murky canopy reflecting industrial light back to earth, evoking the high 102.7 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the smoke and steam, dramatic interplay of artificial warm light against cold darkness — yet with meticulous technical accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, boiler house structure, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.