Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky; natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; hard coal 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a single older coal plant with rectangular cooling towers and a tall brick chimney; biomass 4.4 GW sits in the mid-ground right as a cluster of wood-fired industrial boilers with corrugated-metal buildings and modest steam outlets; onshore wind 4.2 GW occupies the right background as a sparse row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the nearly windless air; solar 2.1 GW is represented by a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the far right foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky; hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the distant centre background; offshore wind 0.3 GW is barely visible as a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon. The time is 06:00 in early May — pre-dawn light casts a pale steel-blue wash across a deep blue-grey sky, no direct sunlight, 96% cloud cover forms a heavy unbroken stratus ceiling pressing down oppressively. Temperature is 7.6°C: spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued in the dim light, dew visible on grass. The atmosphere is dense, heavy, and brooding, conveying the weight of high electricity prices. The landscape is flat central German terrain with fields and scattered birch trees. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich dark palette of slate greys, muted greens, and ochre industrial tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and mist layering the distances, each energy technology painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT stainless-steel stacks. No text, no labels.