Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights illuminating the lignite plant's conveyor belts and boiler houses. Natural gas 5.9 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, steel structures lit by industrial floodlights. Hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and coal stockpile, glowing under amber work lights. Wind onshore 9.8 GW spans the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in staggered patterns against the night. Wind offshore 5.2 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of red blinking lights above a barely visible dark sea. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and modest smokestack near the coal station. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the lower foreground with water glinting under a single floodlight. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, overcast at 83% cloud cover so no stars are visible, lending a heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high 117.6 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a chilly 5.3 °C in mid-May; grass and young spring foliage on scattered trees appear dark and dew-laden. Light wind at 8.4 km/h gives gentle motion to turbine blades. The entire scene is illuminated only by artificial light — sodium-orange streetlamps along a road in the foreground, white-blue industrial floodlights on the power stations, red aviation lights on turbine nacelles. No solar panels anywhere; no sunlight, no sky glow. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of blacks, deep blues, warm oranges, and cool greys — with visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze around the cooling tower plumes, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. The mood is solemn, industrial, quietly powerful. No text, no labels.