Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps illuminating the lignite stockyard and conveyor belts. Natural gas 6.9 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing orange flare tips, their steel facades picked out by industrial floodlights. Hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and a squat chimney trailing faint smoke, lit by white security lighting. Wind onshore 8.3 GW spans the right third of the composition as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness, rotors turning at moderate speed. Wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested far in the background right by a faint line of red beacon lights on the horizon over a dark sea. Biomass 4.6 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest smokestack and a glowing biomass feed hopper near the centre. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam structure in the lower-right foreground, water catching reflections of industrial light. The sky is completely black at 22:00 in May, heavy with 100 percent cloud cover so no stars are visible — an oppressive, dense ceiling pressing down, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature around 10 °C: spring vegetation on the hillsides is fresh green but rendered in dark shadow, barely visible. The landscape rolls gently — central German low hills. A river in the foreground mirrors amber and white industrial lights. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich, dark palette of deep navy, umber, ochre, and warm amber; thick visible brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro lighting from artificial sources only; atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling tower plumes; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, exhaust stack, and conveyor system. No text, no labels.