Wind onshore 14.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central-German farmland, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark, barely visible sea on the horizon. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky, fed by conveyor belts from an open-pit mine. Natural gas 6.0 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, warm orange light spilling from its turbine hall windows. Hard coal 4.7 GW is positioned centre-left as a coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, a tall brick chimney, and coal stockpiles visible under floodlights. Biomass 4.2 GW appears in the centre as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage silo, a short stack with a faint heat shimmer, and stacked timber logs visible in a lit yard. Hydro 1.3 GW is represented as a small concrete run-of-river dam with a modest powerhouse, tucked into a valley in the centre-right middle ground, illuminated by a single sodium floodlight. Time is 3:00 AM: the sky is completely black with dense 90% cloud cover obscuring all stars and moon — no twilight, no sky glow, only deep charcoal-navy overhead. The entire landscape is lit solely by artificial sources: sodium-orange streetlights along a rural road, industrial floodlights at each power station, the ruddy glow of furnace mouths at the coal plants, and aviation warning lights blinking red atop every wind turbine nacelle. Temperature is a chilly 5.7°C in early April: bare-branched deciduous trees with only the faintest buds, patches of frost on the ploughed fields, breath-like condensation visible near the cooling towers. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — dense low clouds reflecting the amber industrial glow back down, creating a claustrophobic ceiling that presses on the landscape, conveying the elevated electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between inky darkness and warm industrial light, atmospheric perspective fading the offshore turbines into misty obscurity, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.