Brown coal 11.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky; natural gas 8.1 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer from turbine halls; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts feeding from a dark coal stockpile; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a smaller industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage visible behind a modest chimney with faint grey exhaust; wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as three distant three-blade turbines on a low ridge at far right, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway lights at the far right edge. TIME: 02:00 — completely dark, black sky with no twilight or sky glow, total 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars, deep navy-to-black canopy overhead. All structures lit only by harsh sodium-orange industrial lighting, safety beacons, and glowing windows of control buildings. The cooling tower plumes are illuminated from below by facility lights, creating ghostly columns against the black sky. Temperature 5.8°C early autumn cold: ground vegetation sparse brown-green, thin frost forming on metal structures. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 176.5 EUR/MWh price — a dense, weighty industrial haze hangs low across the scene. A river in the foreground reflects the amber industrial glow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. The mood is sublime industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.