How much power does your prison use?

[Forblaze]

I'm just curious how much power you guys are using.

My prison is running on 8 generators with 16 capacitors each, with 6 of those being 3 bars short of capping and the other two primarily being backup.

[jasonharris2]

i,m running 6 gens with 16 capacitors for 269 prisoners and 2 kithens

[zytukin]

Depends on the prison.

I've used as few as 1
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=633936509

And as many as 32
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=640714575

But, I'd say normally around 4-6 generators. Usually 1 or 2 for the kitchen, 1 or 2 for cells, and 1 or 2 for workshops/laundry. I also normally put them all in the same area of the map so it's a bit like a puzzle trying to route the wires where they need to go. But, I have barely played since update 3, so I don't know how all the new heating stuff will effect the average usage of my prisons.

[lissa_981]

for most of my prisons (800-1200 cap) 8-10 stations with max caps depending on the exact layout used.

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

The power consumption is entirely meaningless if you don't name your maximum number of prisoners at the same time.
I could build a prison with just 100 people and absolutely insane power useage, or completely redundant generators that I only built because I have too much money and am very scared of electrical overload events.

[TheXev]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675985835 I'm running 9 in my primary prison of 450ish prisoners. A few of them aren't really using all that much power. I use quiet a few metal detectors, so that is what is taking up the bulk majority of the power.

[billy]

Think i'm using 6 generators for 325 prisoners , i have 4 workshops with 18 machines in each.

[bellwoody]

In my biggest prison with 1.5k inmates, there are 34 generators, but not all them are heavily loaded. I'd install a new generator when nearby generators at 80% output (with 16 capitators), normally I'd like to keep 20% more for backup, the new generators is for further power consume.

34 generators support for 20+ workshops and dozen of kitchen, over 100 metal detector and 10 more dozen of CCTVs.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=668174068
Beware, it's laggy.

[lissa_981]

here's my small prison layout with 7 generators for 600ish prisoners on a large map no expansions:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669720119

here's my bigest prison with 11 generators for approx 1200 on a large map 2 expansions:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677516664

[junkriffs™]

18 power and 7 water how do i put a screenshot in this form?

[TheXev]

Originally posted by bellwoody:

In my biggest prison with 1.5k inmates, there are 34 generators, but not all them are heavily loaded. I'd install a new generator when nearby generators at 80% output (with 16 capitators), normally I'd like to keep 20% more for backup, the new generators is for further power consume.

34 generators support for 20+ workshops and dozen of kitchen, over 100 metal detector and 10 more dozen of CCTVs.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=668174068
Beware, it's laggy.

I heart this prison so much, I finally was able to find a good stress test for my new CPU! :) Its also amazing.

[Epicness]

Here's my generator setup
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678471320
3 generators in a small building with all my other utilities