Brown coal 8.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 7.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer and lit by amber sodium floodlights; hard coal 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a gritty coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a single large chimney trailing thin smoke; wind onshore 6.8 GW stretches across the right quarter as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-and-tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested at the far right horizon as tiny red dots over an invisible North Sea; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a low cylindrical silo and small stack glowing warmly near the coal station; hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway water catching faint reflected light in the lower foreground. Time is 04:00 — the sky is completely black with heavy 100% cloud cover erasing all stars, no twilight, no sky glow whatsoever; the only illumination comes from sodium-orange and halogen-white industrial lighting reflecting off steam plumes and wet pavement. Temperature is 6.5 °C in mid-April: bare-branched trees with only the faintest swelling buds, damp grass, patches of mist low over a river in the foreground. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — thick humid air presses down, steam plumes flatten and linger, the scene feels weighty and claustrophobic. A network of high-voltage transmission pylons threads across the middle ground, cables sagging with the load of imports. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every engineering detail is meticulous: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometries. The palette is dominated by deep navy-black sky, amber and orange industrial light, pale grey-white steam, and muted green-brown earth. No text, no labels.