Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising from a sprawling lignite mine, thick white-grey steam plumes merging with the overcast sky; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular chimney and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; biomass 4.5 GW sits behind the gas plants as low industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short stacks trailing pale smoke; solar 3.5 GW is represented in the right-centre foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled on a green meadow, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the thick cloud layer, catching no sunlight; wind onshore 3.3 GW occupies the right side as a modest row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 0.2 GW is a single distant turbine silhouette on the far-right horizon; hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam and reservoir nestled in a forested valley at far left. Time of day is 19:00 in early May — dusk with a rapidly fading orange-red glow clinging to the lowest horizon line, the sky above darkening to slate grey blending into deep blue, 100 percent cloud cover creating a heavy, oppressive, unbroken ceiling with no clear patches. The elevated electricity price is evoked by the dense, pressing atmosphere and warm sodium-orange industrial lighting beginning to switch on across the thermal plants. Temperature is cool at 9°C — spring foliage on scattered birch and linden trees is fresh but subdued in the dimming light, grass is deep green. 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 visible in the steam plumes and cloud layers, atmospheric depth created through layered haze and diminishing detail toward the horizon, warm industrial oranges contrasting with cool blue-grey twilight, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.