Brown coal 6.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; hard coal 3.6 GW appears just right of centre as a large coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and tall chimneys trailing dark smoke; natural gas 3.9 GW sits centre-right as two compact CCGT units with sleek single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip-fed CHP plants with modest cylindrical stacks and wood-pile yards in the mid-ground; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground river; wind onshore 0.9 GW shows two distant three-blade turbines on a low hill, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the far horizon over a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. No solar panels visible anywhere — no sunshine exists. The sky is a heavy, unbroken 100% overcast ceiling in deep blue-grey pre-dawn tones; it is 06:00 in April, so only the faintest cold pale light edges the eastern horizon beneath thick clouds, the rest of the sky near-black transitioning to slate. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, reflecting the 104.8 EUR/MWh price — low brooding clouds press down on the industrial landscape. Temperature is 11°C in mid-April: fresh green buds on birch trees, damp meadow grass, patches of morning mist along the river. Wind is almost still — smoke and steam rise nearly vertically. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark colour palette of slate blues, warm amber industrial glows from plant windows and sodium lights, cool greens in vegetation, with visible textured brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and dramatic chiaroscuro. Every power plant is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: lattice transmission towers, aluminium busbars, turbine nacelles with correct proportions. The scene feels monumental and somber, a masterwork industrial landscape at the edge of night. No text, no labels.