Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 5.8 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting shimmering heat haze; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the right third as a receding line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning slowly; hard coal 2.8 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts; biomass 3.6 GW sits in the mid-ground as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a green-trimmed industrial shed and a thin smoke column; hydro 1.7 GW is suggested in the far background as a concrete dam with water spilling in pale streaks; wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as tiny turbine silhouettes on the distant horizon line; solar 0.8 GW is absent from visible panels—no sunshine whatsoever. Time is 05:00 in mid-June Berlin: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn light just beginning to separate earth from sky, no direct sunlight, no warm colours on the horizon yet, only the faintest cool luminance in the east contrasting with near-black western sky. Heavy 89% cloud cover creates a low oppressive ceiling pressing down on the cooling tower plumes. Temperature 15°C: lush green summer vegetation in meadows and hedgerows below the infrastructure, dew glistening faintly on grass in the foreground. The high price atmosphere is conveyed through a brooding, dense, weighty sky. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines cross the mid-ground, symbolising import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered fog and industrial haze, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the glowing sodium-lit industrial facilities, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and smokestack. No text, no labels.