Brown coal 11.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; natural gas 5.9 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze; solar 6.7 GW appears centre-right as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels tilted toward the sky but reflecting only grey cloud, their surfaces dull and muted; hard coal 3.4 GW stands behind the gas plant as a dark industrial hall with a conveyor belt feeding a squat smokestack trailing grey exhaust; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a pair of sturdy wood-chip-fired boiler buildings with small chimneys and stacked timber alongside; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a modest concrete dam with a thin waterfall in the far right middle ground; wind onshore 1.6 GW shows as three tall three-blade turbines on a low ridge behind the solar field, their rotors barely turning in the nearly still air; wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the far horizon line above a grey sea inlet. The sky is 96% overcast — a heavy, oppressive ceiling of stratiform cloud in tones of pewter and slate, pressing down on the landscape to convey the extreme 250 EUR/MWh price. Time is 18:00 in September: dusk light with a dim orange-red glow confined to the lowest sliver of the western horizon, the rest of the sky darkening to blue-grey, sodium streetlights just beginning to flicker on along an access road. Vegetation is late-summer green starting to hint at early autumn gold on birch and linden trees. Foreground shows a ploughed field with stubble. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, PV module frame, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.