Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps along ash conveyors and coal bunkers. Natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with warm interior light through tall industrial windows. Onshore wind 5.1 GW occupies the centre-right as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-free tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and a warm amber glow from the boiler hall, positioned in the right-centre. Hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the brown coal station as a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and a conveyor belt feeding black coal, dimly lit. Hydro 2.1 GW is suggested at the far right by a concrete dam with illuminated spillway releasing white water into a dark river gorge. Offshore wind 0.2 GW is barely visible as a single distant turbine light on the far horizon. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no moon glow — a deep navy-to-black vault with only faint stars visible through the clear 2% cloud cover. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the tension of high electricity prices: a slight industrial haze hangs over the thermal plants, lit a sickly amber by sodium streetlights. The landscape is a flat North German plain in early summer, with lush dark-green vegetation barely visible at the edges of lamp pools. Temperature around 10°C is suggested by a thin layer of ground mist curling around the bases of the cooling towers. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth achieved through layered haze, technically precise engineering details on every structure — turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, gas turbine exhaust diffusers — rendered with the care of a masterwork landscape. No text, no labels.