Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a pitch-black, fully overcast night sky; natural gas 9.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks topped by flaring heat shimmer and orange-lit sodium lamps around their perimeters; hard coal 5.1 GW appears centre-right as a heavy industrial coal-fired station with a large rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single broad chimney trailing smoke; biomass 4.6 GW sits to the right as a pair of compact wood-chip power plants with small stacks and warm amber-lit buildings and log piles visible under floodlights; wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a few three-blade turbines with red aviation warning lights on a distant dark ridge, rotors barely turning in the near-calm air; wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of tiny red blinking lights far on the horizon; hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam with a spillway faintly lit by a single lamp at the far right edge. The sky is completely black, heavy, starless, oppressive overcast pressing down — no twilight, no moon, no sky glow — conveying the high electricity price through a thick, suffocating atmosphere. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber on wet roads in the foreground. Spring vegetation — bare-budding trees, damp fresh grass — is barely visible at ground level under artificial light. Temperature around 10°C suggested by faint mist clinging to the ground between the plants. No solar panels anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of blacks, deep navy, burnt sienna, and amber — with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from the industrial lighting against total darkness, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. Atmospheric depth achieved through layers of steam and mist receding into blackness. No text, no labels.