Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into frigid air; hard coal 6.2 GW sits just right of centre as a row of heavy industrial boiler houses with tall chimneys trailing dark exhaust; natural gas 7.4 GW occupies the centre-right as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; wind onshore 6.6 GW appears as a modest line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a faint group of turbines on a far horizon line; solar 5.1 GW is represented by a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, angled toward the east, catching the first faint pre-dawn glow; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a low rectangular building and a single modest smokestack with pale exhaust; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a valley at the far right edge. The sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn with the faintest band of cold pale light along the eastern horizon—no direct sunlight yet, no warm tones, just the first hint of dawn. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 168.8 EUR/MWh price: low clouds of industrial steam hang over the landscape, and a thin frost coats bare early-April trees and brown grass. Temperature is below zero; breath-like mist clings to the ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, dark colour palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and grey-violet, with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.