Brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness; hard coal 4.7 GW sits just left of centre as a sprawling power station with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and a tall brick chimney glowing faintly orange at its base; natural gas 6.3 GW fills the centre-right as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with sleek cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and shorter smokestack near the right; wind onshore 2.3 GW is rendered as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.7 GW as a faint silhouette of two offshore turbines on a far horizon line; hydro 1.1 GW as a small dam with spillway visible in the middle distance. TIME: 04:00 in August, completely dark — black sky with no twilight, no sky glow, no moon visible. 97% cloud cover means no stars, the sky is an oppressive uniform deep charcoal-black canopy pressing down. Lighting comes only from sodium-orange streetlights along industrial access roads, the amber glow of furnace mouths, control-room windows casting rectangles of fluorescent light, and the ghostly pale steam columns illuminated from below by plant floodlights. Summer vegetation — dark silhouettes of linden and beech trees with full canopies — frames the foreground. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, oppressive, with a faint industrial haze reflecting the plant lights as a dull amber pall along the horizon. Transmission line towers with high-voltage cables recede into the darkness, hinting at the massive import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism — meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower contour, and lattice pylon. No text, no labels.