Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the darkness; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heated exhaust; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a pair of rectangular boiler houses and a single wide chimney; onshore wind 4.4 GW stretches across the right side as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors barely turning in near-still air; offshore wind 2.1 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a dark horizon line beyond a river; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a domed wood-chip silo and a modest stack glowing faintly; hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam structure with a weir visible in the far right foreground. Time is 05:00 in April — the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight, no warm tones on the horizon, only the very faintest steel-blue lightening at the eastern edge. No solar panels anywhere. Complete overcast at 100% cloud cover creates a heavy, low ceiling of dark grey stratus pressing down on the scene. Temperature near 8°C: early spring, bare-branched trees with the first pale green buds, damp grass. The atmosphere feels oppressive and dense, reflecting the high electricity price — hazy industrial vapour hangs low, sodium-orange streetlights and warm amber facility lights illuminate the foreground infrastructure. A broad German river reflects the cooling tower lights. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, slate grey, amber, and ochre; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth through layers of industrial haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, CCGT stack, and coal conveyor. The scene reads as a monumental industrial nocturne, solemn and technically precise. No text, no labels.