Brown coal 11.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes into the night sky; natural gas 8.9 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and illuminated turbine halls glowing with sodium-orange light; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a smaller conventional coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney trailing faint white exhaust; wind onshore 6.9 GW spans the right quarter as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking at each nacelle; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack; hydro 0.8 GW appears as a small dam structure at the far right edge with water barely visible in reflected artificial light; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by distant tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The time is 20:00 in late September — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with total 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars, no twilight glow whatsoever. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 277.3 EUR/MWh price — low humid clouds press down, lit from below by the industrial amber and sodium glow of the power stations. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show early autumn yellows, lush from 20°C warmth. Air is nearly still at 3.1 km/h — smoke and steam rise almost vertically. No solar panels visible anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich chiaroscuro contrasts between the black sky and the warm industrial glow, visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower curve, turbine blade profile, and CCGT exhaust geometry, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant structures. No text, no labels.