Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the black sky, lit from below by amber sodium floodlights; hard coal 3.9 GW sits just right of centre-left as a pair of smaller coal plants with tall rectangular stacks and red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 4.4 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with single slim exhaust stacks and bright white industrial lighting on their turbine halls; biomass 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of low industrial biogas facilities with green-tinted corrugated walls and small chimneys emitting faint wisps of steam, warmly lit from within; wind onshore 11.0 GW fills the entire right third and extends across the background horizon as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their nacelle lights blinking red rhythmically, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark body of water with faint navigation lights; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far background valley with spillway illuminated by a single floodlight. The sky is completely black and overcast—no stars, no moon, no twilight glow—a heavy, oppressive 100% cloud ceiling pressing down on the scene, conveying the weight of 174.8 EUR/MWh prices. The season is midsummer so the foreground shows lush dark green vegetation barely visible in the industrial glow. The landscape is a gently rolling German plain. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the warm industrial glows and the enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling tower plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.