Natural gas 11.2 GW dominates the centre-right of the composition as a sprawling complex of CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale plumes; brown coal 9.7 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam columns rising into the sky; hard coal 6.2 GW appears in the centre-left as a bank of rectangular coal-fired boiler houses with twin chimneys trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of smaller industrial plants with ribbed storage silos and wood-chip conveyors in the mid-ground right; wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the faint breeze; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with water cascading into a river in the far background. The sky is pre-dawn: deep blue-grey with the faintest pale band of cold light along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, 74% cloud cover rendered as a heavy overcast blanket pressing low. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the 180.8 EUR/MWh price — dense industrial haze diffuses the few sodium-orange streetlights and facility lights that glow below. Temperature is 3°C: frost coats bare branches of dormant deciduous trees, patches of old snow cling to brown fields, breath-like mist hangs at ground level. No solar panels visible anywhere. High-voltage transmission lines stretch toward the horizon, symbolising the large import flow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, iron greys, burnt umber, and furnace orange; visible expressive brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with layers of industrial haze receding into distance. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with correct parabolic profiles, CCGT stacks with heat-recovery housings. The scene conveys the monumental weight of a fossil-fuel-dependent dawn. No text, no labels.