Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a vast lignite complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick grey-white steam plumes into the overcast sky, flanked by open-pit mine terraces in raw amber earth. Natural gas 5.2 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slim silver exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer. Wind onshore 5.2 GW stretches across the centre as a dozen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning slowly in the light breeze. Biomass 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial wood-chip facilities with squat chimneys and timber storage yards. Solar 3.6 GW is rendered right of centre as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle hillside, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky, producing no glint. Hard coal 2.3 GW sits at the far right as a single traditional coal plant with a tall brick chimney and conveyor belts. Hydro 1.7 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam with spillway visible in the right foreground along a winding river. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely suggested as two distant turbines on the far horizon. The sky is a heavy, oppressive blanket of 99% cloud cover in deep slate-grey tones, with only the faintest pale blue-grey pre-dawn luminescence along the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky. The landscape is lush early-summer green with tall grasses and deciduous trees in full leaf at 15°C. The atmosphere feels weighty and close, reflecting the 164 EUR/MWh price tension. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, chiaroscuro in the steam clouds, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and PV panel frame. No text, no labels.