Natural gas 9.9 GW dominates the centre-left as a cluster of large combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale heat shimmer; brown coal 9.7 GW occupies the left background as four massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the dark sky; wind onshore 11.2 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors slowly turning; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon standing in dark water; hard coal 6.1 GW sits centre-right as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; biomass 4.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a woody fuel stockpile and modest exhaust; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway in the lower-right foreground. The scene is set at 22:00 on a spring night in central Germany — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, 97% cloud cover obscuring all stars. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along an access road, bright white industrial floodlights on the power stations, red aviation warning lights on wind turbine nacelles blinking in sequence, and the faint warm glow of cooling tower steam lit from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low dense clouds press down, catching the orange industrial light in an ominous diffuse haze. Bare early-spring trees with just the first buds line a foreground field at roughly 9°C, with damp grass glistening under artificial light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadow and industrial glow, atmospheric depth with haze layering foreground, mid-ground, and background. Each technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, aluminium-clad CCGT exhaust stacks, hyperbolic reinforced-concrete cooling towers with visible ribbing, coal conveyor gantries. No text, no labels.