Wind onshore 15.4 GW occupies the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a dark rolling plain, rotors visibly turning; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears on the far right horizon as a distant cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible North Sea, their red aviation lights blinking; brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white steam plumes into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium floodlights of an open-pit lignite complex; natural gas 5.7 GW sits left of centre as two compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial halogen lighting; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-left as a coal-fired station with a large rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.2 GW is represented centre-right as a mid-sized plant with a cylindrical silo and a modest stack with faint vapour; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure in the middle distance with water cascading under floodlights. Time is 2 AM: the sky is completely black with 100 % cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight, only a flat oppressive overcast ceiling faintly lit from below by industrial glow. The atmosphere is heavy and close, suggesting high electricity prices — a brooding, thick air pressing down on the landscape. Temperature is 6 °C in early April: bare deciduous trees with only the faintest bud swelling, damp brown grass, patches of mud. Wind at 11 km/h animates turbine blades and drifts the steam plumes gently eastward. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, warm industrial oranges against cold Prussian-blue and lamp-black darks, atmospheric perspective fading the offshore turbines into haze. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling-tower shells, ribbed boiler houses, concrete dam faces. The scene reads as a grand, sombre industrial nocturne — a masterwork painting of the German energy landscape at night. No text, no labels.