Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 6.5 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall cylindrical exhaust stacks and glowing control rooms; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and a single squat smokestack; wind onshore 3.4 GW occupies the right portion as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a dark ridge, rotors barely turning in nearly still air; hard coal 3.3 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a coal-fired plant with rectangular cooling towers and a tall brick chimney; hydro 1.2 GW is visible as a small illuminated dam and penstock structure in the far right background valley. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon — a deep-navy-to-black vault studded with faint stars, clear with zero cloud cover. A frost of 2°C coats early-spring bare branches and dormant grass in crystalline white. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — thick industrial haze hugs the ground, sodium streetlights cast harsh amber pools, and the steam plumes from the coal plants billow densely into the dark, still air. No solar panels anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of deep indigo, burnt sienna, warm amber, and ashen grey — with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial light sources, and atmospheric depth receding into industrial haze. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness merged with an unflinching industrial realism. No text, no labels.