Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 8.5 GW fills the centre-left as a sprawling CCGT power station complex with tall single exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer and faint orange glow from gas turbine intakes; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-right as a blocky coal-fired plant with large rectangular boiler houses and a tall chimney stack with aviation warning lights blinking red; wind onshore 5.7 GW spans the right third as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a low ridge, blades turning almost imperceptibly in the still air, red nacelle lights blinking; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest steam stack near the coal plant; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway visible in the far distance at right. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, thick 81% cloud cover obscuring any stars. The only light sources are sodium-orange streetlights along an access road, the red and white aviation lights on stacks and turbine nacelles, the incandescent glow from plant windows and furnace openings, and the eerie upward-lit steam plumes catching industrial light from below. The landscape is flat North German plain with bare early-spring vegetation, patches of frost on the ground reflecting faint orange light, temperature near 4°C suggested by visible breath-like condensation around structures. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy — reflecting the high 134 EUR/MWh electricity price — with industrial haze hanging low and diffusing the artificial lights into halos. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, ochre, and burnt sienna — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze receding into blackness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of the sublime, but the subject is the modern industrial energy landscape at its most demanding nocturnal hour. No text, no labels.