Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; wind onshore 5.7 GW stretches across the centre-left as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in near-calm air; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-right as a large coal-fired station with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel into the plant; natural gas 3.8 GW sits to the right as two compact CCGT units with slim silver exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered nearby as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded woodchip storage dome and a single modest smokestack; hydro 1.1 GW appears in the far right background as a concrete dam with a small reservoir nestled in low hills; offshore wind 0.8 GW is faintly visible on the distant horizon as a handful of turbines rising from a grey sea; solar 0.7 GW is represented as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting nothing under total overcast. The sky is a uniform blanket of heavy, oppressive grey cloud with no break whatsoever — no sun, no blue — conveying the 205.7 EUR/MWh price tension. The light is pre-dawn: a faint, cold blue-grey glow seeping from the eastern horizon, the landscape still mostly in deep shadow, with amber sodium streetlights and yellow-lit industrial windows providing warm points of artificial illumination. The temperature is an unseasonably cool 7°C for late August: the vegetation is full green summer foliage but the grass glistens with morning dew, and a faint ground mist clings to the fields between the power plants and turbines. The air is perfectly still, no motion in trees or flags. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere combined with meticulous industrial-realist engineering detail — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, luminous treatment of mist and artificial light against the dark pre-dawn sky. No text, no labels.