Brown coal 6.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers, each venting thick white-grey steam plumes into the night sky, flanked by conveyor belts feeding dark lignite. Natural gas 6.5 GW fills the centre as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting translucent heat shimmer, lit by orange sodium floodlights. Hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station to the centre-right with a single square cooling tower and a coal stockpile. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial wood-chip boiler buildings with glowing furnace windows and short chimneys trailing thin smoke. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the middle distance, its turbine hall lit from within. Wind onshore 1.4 GW stands as a small group of three-blade turbines on a ridge at far right, blades motionless in the dead calm. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by faint red aviation lights on the distant horizon line. No solar panels anywhere. The sky is completely dark — black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 92% overcast blotting out all stars, creating an oppressive low ceiling that reflects the orange industrial glow. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, with haze and steam merging into the cloud base, conveying the 148 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is a mild 13°C early summer night; grass and deciduous trees in full leaf are barely visible in the industrial light spill. Puddles on access roads reflect sodium-yellow light. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the murky distance, symbolising the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of deep ochre, burnt sienna, Prussian blue, and lamp black; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layered haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The scene feels like a masterwork nocturne of industrial Germany. No text, no labels.