Brown coal 7.4 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 5.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails, lit by orange sodium lights; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a gritty power station with conveyor belts and a tall brick chimney, glowing furnace light visible through grated windows; biomass 4.0 GW sits to the right as a wood-chip-fuelled plant with a modest stack and warm amber interior glow from open loading bays; wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in near-calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by faint red dots on the far horizon line representing turbines at sea; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure in the far right middle ground with water faintly reflecting artificial light; solar 0.2 GW is effectively absent — no panels visible, no sun. The sky is completely overcast, a heavy blanket of low stratus clouds in deep charcoal and slate grey, pressing down oppressively to convey the 127 EUR/MWh price tension. The time is 05:00 in mid-May: the faintest hint of pre-dawn blue-grey light appears at the eastern horizon, but the scene is overwhelmingly dark, illuminated primarily by industrial sodium-vapour streetlights casting amber pools, glowing furnace mouths, and scattered facility floodlights. The landscape is flat central German terrain — early spring vegetation, bare branches with the first pale green buds, frost on the grass catching the industrial light. Temperature near 5°C suggested by visible breath-like mist near ground level. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial fire-glow and the cold dark sky, atmospheric depth with receding layers of industrial infrastructure fading into pre-dawn murk. Engineering details are meticulous: three-blade rotor geometry on wind turbines, lattice tower structures, the distinctive hyperboloid shape of lignite cooling towers, aluminium cladding on gas turbine housings. The mood is sombre, weighty, industrially sublime. No text, no labels.