Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a heavy grey sky; natural gas 7.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; wind onshore 8.0 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.2 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea horizon; hard coal 4.3 GW sits adjacent to the lignite complex as a dark industrial plant with conveyor belts and a tall brick chimney; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a modest stack and stored timber piles; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock facility nestled in a forested valley at the far right; solar 0.2 GW is entirely absent — no panels visible anywhere. The sky is a uniform, oppressive blanket of 100% cloud cover with no break or colour, rendered in heavy slate-grey and charcoal tones conveying the high 136 EUR/MWh price. The time is early dawn at 06:00 in April — the faintest hint of cool blue-grey pre-dawn light appears at the eastern horizon, but no sun is visible and the landscape is still mostly dark, illuminated by sodium-orange industrial lights glowing across the power plants and along roads. Temperature is a cool 7.7°C: spring vegetation is sparse, early green grass with bare-branched trees just beginning to bud. The atmosphere is thick, damp, and brooding. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn landscape — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.