Solar 40.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast undulating fields of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their aluminium frames glinting intensely under a blazing midsummer sun directly overhead. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the windless air. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a tall smokestack and wood-chip storage silos in the left midground. Natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with polished exhaust stacks and a modest heat shimmer, placed centre-left. Hard coal 2.5 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal-fired plant with conveyor belts and a single rectangular cooling tower. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with turbine housings visible in a sluggish river crossing the foreground. Wind onshore 0.7 GW is represented by two distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, rotors completely still. The sky is utterly cloudless, a deep oppressive cerulean fading to a pale white-hot haze at the horizon, conveying extreme summer heat at 33 °C. The air shimmers with heat distortion above the solar fields. Vegetation is parched midsummer green tending toward yellow, dry grasses bending under no breeze. The atmosphere feels heavy and stifling, suggesting high electricity prices. Time is 4 PM — full bright afternoon daylight with shadows beginning to lengthen slightly eastward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, golden-warm palette — yet every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust detail is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.