Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the darkness; natural gas 8.2 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing orange-lit turbine halls; wind onshore 6.4 GW spans the centre-right as a line of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears in the far right background as smaller turbines standing in a dark grey sea on the horizon; hard coal 4.4 GW sits behind the brown coal as a conventional power station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure, lit by sodium-yellow floodlights; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and modest exhaust, positioned between the gas plant and the onshore turbines; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible at the far right foreground near a dark river. No solar panels anywhere — zero solar generation. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the very first hint of pale steel-blue light barely touching the eastern horizon, the rest of the sky nearly black with 71% cloud cover rendered as heavy low stratus obscuring stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 110.6 EUR/MWh price — a dense, brooding air hangs over the scene. Temperature is 7°C in mid-April: bare branches on some trees beginning to bud, patches of early spring grass, lingering frost on the ground. Wind is light at 8.3 km/h, so smoke and steam drift gently rather than being torn away. Industrial facilities are lit by warm sodium streetlights and security floodlights casting orange pools on wet pavement. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro, deep tonal range from near-black shadows to warm artificial glows — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, CCGT exhaust stack, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels.