Brown coal 7.9 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 heavy sky; natural gas 5.2 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 4.0 GW appears in the centre-right as a row of widely spaced three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a pair of wood-clad industrial facilities with short stacks and warm amber-lit interiors; hard coal 3.2 GW sits to the right as a large power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway glimpsed in the far right background; offshore wind 0.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a dark horizon line; solar 0.3 GW is represented only by a small array of dark, unlit crystalline silicon panels on a rooftop, reflecting nothing. The time is 21:00 in late June in central Germany: the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black with no twilight glow remaining, thick 87% cloud cover rendering it an opaque canopy with no stars visible. All illumination is artificial — sodium-orange streetlights cast pools of warm light on roads, industrial facilities glow with interior lighting, cooling towers are lit from below by facility floodlights. The landscape is flat central German terrain with lush midsummer vegetation visible in the foreground, wilted slightly by 32 °C heat, the air heavy and oppressive reflecting the extreme 214 EUR/MWh price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of deep blues, ochres, and warm industrial oranges, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial infrastructure and the black sky, atmospheric haze from the heat, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.