Brown coal 7.5 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 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; wind onshore 3.9 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at right, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 3.1 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbine silhouettes far on the horizon at the extreme right; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a gently smoking stack nestled between the coal and gas plants; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway visible in the lower right foreground. The time is 03:00 — the sky is completely black with heavy 99% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. All illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights, harsh white industrial floodlights on the power stations, red warning beacons on stacks and turbines, and the faint amber glow of furnace mouths. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price — low-hanging clouds catch the industrial light in dirty ochre and sulphur tones. Temperature is 5.2°C: early spring vegetation is sparse and dark, bare branches on a few trees in the foreground, patches of damp ground. The air is nearly still — no motion in smoke plumes, which rise vertically. A high-voltage transmission line runs across the middle distance, its insulators catching floodlight, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadow and industrial glow, atmospheric depth with layers of haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and lattice pylon. No text, no labels.