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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:13pm
Parts of city not getting electricity?
Anyone else having an issue with this? I'm close to 3500 pop. I have a coal plant and a couple water turbines that are placed in a max power generating area. Everything is connected within the blue area or has power lines running to it. My power bar is 1/2 into the green yet I still have houses that say they are getting no power.

*Edit* Picture - http://imgur.com/lSGu0Kf

*Fixed* My wind turbines weren't connecting to the grid. Their power production was shown but it wasn't actually going anywhere. Lesson learned lol.
Last edited by JCrowe; Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:58pm
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Vimpster Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:16pm 
Sounds like you haven't connected everything together. Perhaps you have two seperated areas and one has more power then it needs and one has not enough power. The power meter only shows your region wide power output and consumption. It doesn't specify that every area has access to the amount of power it needs.
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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:23pm 
Originally posted by Vimpster:
Sounds like you haven't connected everything together. Perhaps you have two seperated areas and one has more power then it needs and one has not enough power. The power meter only shows your region wide power output and consumption. It doesn't specify that every area has access to the amount of power it needs.
Hmm, is there a way to see a more localized power requirements? Most of my city is in a concentrated area, at least the part that is having trouble is. The houses in question are within the big blue bubble area of my town where other buildings are working just fine.
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GT500 Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:26pm 
Originally posted by Spiri7us:
Originally posted by Vimpster:
Sounds like you haven't connected everything together. Perhaps you have two seperated areas and one has more power then it needs and one has not enough power. The power meter only shows your region wide power output and consumption. It doesn't specify that every area has access to the amount of power it needs.
Hmm, is there a way to see a more localized power requirements? Most of my city is in a concentrated area, at least the part that is having trouble is. The houses in question are within the big blue bubble area of my town where other buildings are working just fine.

Best to get in the habit of connecting isolated grids with power lines. This way one area can feed another area if their output is low.
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kylania Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:28pm 
Pics help, but make sure you're power output is still in the green and now falling towards yellow on the scale.
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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:43pm 
Originally posted by kylania:
Pics help, but make sure you're power output is still in the green and now falling towards yellow on the scale.
Added a pic to the OP
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Tossi Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:45pm 
Could you share a savegame? I have a feeling that the problem lies in obscured areas.
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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:51pm 
Originally posted by Tossi:
Could you share a savegame? I have a feeling that the problem lies in obscured areas.
Not too sure how to do that but there isn't anything more to my city other than what is shown in the picture. The power plant is right below where the picture cuts off along the waters edge. One set of lines goes straight up to the main part of town and the other cuts across my water pumping stations and then up.
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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 1:58pm 
Fixed my issue. Learning as I go lol. Thanks to those that tried to help.
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GT500 Mar 12, 2015 @ 2:10pm 
Originally posted by Spiri7us:
Fixed my issue. Learning as I go lol. Thanks to those that tried to help.

What was the problem, by sharing it may help other users in the future :)
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JCrowe Mar 12, 2015 @ 2:50pm 
Originally posted by GT500:
Originally posted by Spiri7us:
Fixed my issue. Learning as I go lol. Thanks to those that tried to help.

What was the problem, by sharing it may help other users in the future :)

My wind turbines weren't actually connected to the grid. So while their power was being shown in my electricity production, it wasn't actually going anywhere. I updated my OP
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Wolvyreen Jul 21, 2017 @ 8:28am 
Originally posted by Spiri7us:
Originally posted by GT500:

What was the problem, by sharing it may help other users in the future :)

My wind turbines weren't actually connected to the grid. So while their power was being shown in my electricity production, it wasn't actually going anywhere. I updated my OP
Its actually stated on the tooltip of the electricity icon while youre having problems:

http://i.imgur.com/OA4uAjo.png
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Los Jul 21, 2017 @ 1:57pm 
omg it lives again!!!!
dam mate no need to resurect a post thats over 2 years old the game has changed so much its not even relevant
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Wolvyreen Jul 21, 2017 @ 2:14pm 
Originally posted by wanyfer:
omg it lives again!!!!
dam mate no need to resurect a post thats over 2 years old the game has changed so much its not even relevant
The worlds still here right? oh yes....its not the end of the world. oh wait? are we dead?
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Los Jul 21, 2017 @ 5:07pm 
what is death? with u ressurecting long dead things death might not be an issue
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Wolvyreen Jul 21, 2017 @ 10:58pm 
Originally posted by wanyfer:
what is death? with u ressurecting long dead things death might not be an issue
LOL! true!
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