Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes into the black night sky, their concrete forms lit by orange sodium floodlights; natural gas 9.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial halogen lights; hard coal 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a gritty coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a large rectangular boiler house, coal piles faintly visible under yellow security lighting; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip gasification plant with a cylindrical reactor and modest stack, warmly lit from within; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the right portion of the scene as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers set on a rolling German hillside, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness; wind offshore 3.4 GW is suggested in the far right background as a distant cluster of turbine lights on the dark horizon above a barely visible sea; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far middle distance, floodlit with white light. The sky is completely black with heavy 98% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a deep oppressive canopy pressing down on the industrial landscape, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 9°C spring night: bare branches on deciduous trees just beginning to bud, patches of damp grass in the foreground reflecting sodium light. Light ground-level mist drifts between the power stations. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede into the darkness toward the border, hinting at substantial imports. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep blacks, warm oranges, sulphurous yellows, and cold steel greys — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.