Wind onshore 20.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across a vast flat northern German plain; wind offshore 6.9 GW appears as a distant row of turbines along a grey horizon line where land meets sea in the far right background; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; natural gas 5.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.2 GW appears just left of centre as a large conventional power station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a tall chimney with a faint plume; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered centre-right as a medium-sized plant with a rounded wood-chip silo and modest stack; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water spilling, tucked in the lower centre; solar 1.2 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dark and reflecting only grey sky, producing almost nothing. The sky is a uniform 100% overcast ceiling of heavy stratocumulus in tones of slate, pewter, and dull cream — no sun visible, no break in the clouds — with the barest hint of pale pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon rendered as a thin band of cold blue-grey. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, befitting the 126.4 EUR/MWh price: low mist clings to the base of the cooling towers, the air feels dense and still despite distant turbine motion. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched birch and beech trees just beginning to show tiny green buds, brown-green fields of winter wheat, frost-tinged grass at 7°C. Surface air is calm with no visible wind at ground level. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into mist, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against the grey dawn — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. Warm sodium-orange artificial lights still glow from the coal and gas plant structures. No text, no labels.