Solar 19.1 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a uniformly heavy, grey overcast sky—no direct sunlight, only flat diffuse light. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive lignite power station hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud base, adjacent open-pit mine terraces visible in ochre and dark earth tones. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired CHP plant with a tall flue stack and timber storage yard. Natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with twin cylindrical exhaust stacks and a visible heat-recovery steam generator, placed between the coal complex and solar fields. Wind onshore 2.1 GW: a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the far background, rotors barely turning, nearly motionless. Hard coal 1.9 GW: a single conventional coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and single tall chimney with a thin grey exhaust ribbon. Hydro 1.7 GW: a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a river valley at the far right. Wind offshore 0.3 GW: just barely visible on the distant horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes. The sky is heavy, oppressive, and uniformly slate-grey—95% cloud cover, no blue patches, no sun disc—conveying the high electricity price as atmospheric weight. Temperature is 5°C in early May: spring vegetation is fresh bright green but subdued under the overcast, with some late-blooming fruit trees in white blossom along field edges. The air feels damp and still—no wind motion in grasses or leaves. Morning light is flat and cool, diffused evenly from the east, consistent with 08:00 in central Germany. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, panel array and smokestack. No text, no labels.