Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the pre-dawn sky; natural gas 5.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW appears centre-right as modest industrial buildings with short chimneys and wood-chip conveyors; hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the biomass as a traditional coal plant with a pair of smaller cooling towers and a conveyor belt feeding a boiler house; wind onshore 2.4 GW is represented by a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the right background, blades barely turning in light air; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with a thin silver spillway in the far right middle ground; solar 0.8 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground right, dark and inert, catching no light; wind offshore 0.3 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the far horizon. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the faintest pale steel-blue band just appearing along the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight, no warm tones yet. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a high haze pressing down, reflecting the 142.3 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is mild at 18.6°C; lush green summer vegetation — dense deciduous trees, tall grass — frames the foreground. Sodium-orange streetlights and industrial safety lights glow along access roads. Puddles on asphalt reflect the cooling tower steam. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich deep colour palette of navy, slate, amber, and ash-white, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading into mist, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.