Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with voluminous steam plumes lit from below by amber industrial lighting; natural gas 8.7 GW fills the centre-left as a bank of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer into the night air; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of medium-scale industrial facilities with wood-chip conveyors and squat chimneys glowing warmly; hard coal 3.5 GW sits behind the biomass as a classical coal plant with twin stacks and conveyor gantries; onshore wind 3.2 GW occupies the right portion as a modest line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation lights blinking; hydro 1.8 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway in the far right middle ground; offshore wind 0.7 GW appears as distant turbines barely visible on the far horizon; solar 0.3 GW is represented only as dormant dark aluminium-framed PV panels in the near foreground, reflecting no light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnants — it is 21:00 in late June after a warm day; a few stars pierce through 24% cloud cover rendered as thin high cirrus. The air feels heavy, oppressive, and humid at 25.7 °C, conveyed through haze and heat distortion around the industrial stacks, reflecting the extreme 528.7 EUR/MWh price. Lush green midsummer vegetation — tall grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf — frames the foreground. Sodium-orange streetlights line an access road. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, luminous contrast between the black sky and the fiery industrial glow. Meticulous engineering detail on every structure: turbine nacelles, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT heat-recovery units. No text, no labels.