Brown coal 6.7 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 5.4 GW appears centre-left as two sleek CCGT combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, their steel casings gleaming under harsh facility lighting. Hard coal 4.6 GW sits centre-right as a classic coal-fired plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and a single large smokestack trailing grey exhaust, illuminated by amber yard lights. Wind onshore 7.1 GW fills the right third of the composition as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-and-tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking at nacelle height against the black sky. Wind offshore 2.1 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly reflective sea surface. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with squat cylindrical digesters and a modest stack, warmly lit. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a spillway in a valley in the middle distance, illuminated by a few white floodlights. Solar 1.0 GW is represented by a barely visible field of darkened crystalline silicon PV panels in the foreground, completely inactive, reflecting only faint artificial light. The sky is fully dark—a deep navy-black summer night at 20:00 in August—with no twilight glow, no sunset colours remaining, a two-thirds overcast ceiling of heavy grey-brown clouds underlit by the industrial glow below, oppressive and humid. The air feels thick and hot at 30 °C; vegetation is lush dark-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, leaves hanging limp and motionless in the windless heat. High-voltage transmission pylons with sagging cables recede into the dark background, suggesting heavy power flows. The atmosphere is heavy and pressurised, reflecting the extreme 240 EUR/MWh price—a brooding, tense industrial nightscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.