Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 8.2 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting shimmering heat haze, lit by orange sodium floodlights; biomass 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single squat chimney glowing warmly; solar 2.9 GW is rendered as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, barely visible, reflecting only artificial light, no sunshine; hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the biomass plant as a coal-fired station with a single large stack and a coal yard illuminated by arc lights; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam structure in the distant right middle ground with water cascading under floodlighting; wind onshore 0.9 GW is shown as two distant three-blade turbines on a ridge at far right, rotors nearly still in the dead air. Time is 20:00 on a June evening in Germany — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow remains, heavy 84% cloud cover makes the sky an oppressive featureless canopy with no stars. The atmosphere feels thick, hot, and stifling at 29°C — summer vegetation is lush and green but wilting slightly in the heatwave, visible in the foreground lit by industrial light spill. The overall mood is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme 435 EUR/MWh price — the air itself seems to press down. High-voltage transmission lines recede into the darkness toward the horizon, symbolising massive import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through layered industrial haze and steam, chiaroscuro lighting from sodium lamps against the black sky. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles with reinforced concrete texture, CCGT stacks with aviation warning lights. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness merged with industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.