Why the hell are my houses not getting electricity?!

[Joghurt]

I have started a semi-long one-way street, the first in my city and it goes from about midway of my map (A map of Stockholm I downloaded) to the end of the map. Certainly not very long. However, power only seems to reach halfway through this street of houses, about 1/3rd into the street, the houses are without power even though they are connected via zoning AND via a powerline which I drew alongside the houses as well as through the middle. Apparently it works because it can supply power to the sewage pipe at the end of the power line but not to the zones it runs alongside and through?! It is connected to five wind turbines plus one at the other end and yet the ones in the middle get NO POWER WHATSOEVER?! This didn't happen at all in my first city (this is my second ever), what could I possibly be doing wrong?!

[Poofius]

Are you consuming more power than your are producing? I had this problem but then realized I just needed to produce more power.

Having the turbines near them won't matter if you still aren't producing enough.

[Joghurt]

I said I had about 5-6 turbines. They are literally only powering about a dozen houses, if that. We're talking about 5-6 turbines that can't power a relatively short road of low density residential and commerical despite powerlines running both alongside and through the zones... I took a screenshot, but I can't upload it on Steam..

[kesat]

You should check your powergrid layer if those houses are really connected. The powerlines need to be within the blue colored zone, it's not enough if houses are connected via zoned areas only.

[Joghurt]

They literally ran just alongside the zones. And if not, the first set of the street had power and power can run through zones pretty damn far and yet it only went about a block and a half in. The rest didnt have any power even if I ran a powerline STRAIGHT THROUGH the zone. Unfortunately I can't check the grid because I can barely see anything in that map, it's all incredibly white whenever I play on a downloaded map and I can barely place my utilities since I can't even see the roads for all the white... I have the graphics set on max btw and my laptop is a really good gaming laptop.

[kesat]

Power doesn't run through zones, but buildings. If you have some powered houses, then empty zoned areas connected to another set of buildings those won't be powered (unless they are connected by your powerlines themself). An example picture what i'm talking about (the gap itself is residential zone):

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/538517866877168274/CC6299BFCF18E02F1450941CCD73A17A908B63F2/

I don't know what your situation is looking like - but if there is such a gap, there won't be any power.

[firesofhades1]

reduce brightness? made sure all windmils are hooked up to the network?

[Qutsemnie]

Odd. But I will re-iterate an above point with a story.

I had a huge city with plenty of connected power and the vast majority of my city was powered, but one neighborhood was only half powered even though it was houses right next to each other.

After some snooping I realized the "half powered" neighborhood was on its own powergrid and had power from a source within the neighborhood, but once it grew to much it started having houses needing power. You won't see that in the powergrid total screens and it will look for all the world like its random.

What happened for me was a powerline was off by one square and I had never noticed because when I plopped the neighborhood down I had also plopped down some power. Attaching the neighborhood to the larger grid fixed it.

[Joghurt]

Nope, they're all connected. With the same powerline powering the powered buildings also running alongside the ones not being powered as well as straight through the zone. I am aware that power runs through buildings and not zones, sorry if I didn't express myself well enough.

Hmm, that might very well be the case since I had a wind turbine at the other end as well... But that one was connected to the other ones via the same power line. The reason I put it down was that none of the buildings beyond 1/3rd of the houses on the one street in my entire city was getting any power nor the sewage pipe at the end of the powerline so they weren't getting any sewage treatment either. It managed to power some houses around it as well as the sewage pipe but the houses running along the powerline weren't getting any power which is when I drew power lines right through the neighbourhood demolishing a few houses along the way since it was pretty tight but all these power turbines STILL couldn't power this one street of houses.

I guess we'll never know because I ragequit without saving my game :P Although I suppose there is autosaves... And I do have that screenshot.

[Joghurt]

Where do I go to lower brightness? Everything turns completely white when I try to place utilites, I literally can't see anything... And is there any way I can share my screenshot of my houses not getting power? Because I viewed it again and it's incredibly curious...

[firesofhades1]

upload to postimg.org or similar, and post the link.
not sure about brightness.

[Joghurt]

Well, this is what it looks like: http://postimg.org/image/5q7bc1n5l/full/

This is so far the only street in this city and it should be able to be powered by four turbines and I have six. I ran a powerline through the lower right after this screenshot was taken and yet nothing happened still. This made it completely impossible for me to settle a city.

[firesofhades1]

can you do a screenshot with electricity overlay? preferably from the other side of the bridges, clear view on the windwills. i know its going to be bright but thats ok.

[BEEN]

I have this problem too. My city has plenty of power, all the houses are connected, yet one corner of my city keeps losing/regaining power over and over again. It must be a bug or a game mechanic that is not spelled out for us and we have to find out ourselves :/

[Foe]

your windmills are too weak? No wind going on?

[Joghurt]

Sorry, the city was lost since I didn't manage to save it :/ Such a shame!
But the one wind turbine that's far away and is being covered by the UI in the top left is connected to the others and even if it wasn't, four turbines would be plenty to power this one street. I even had one at the other end too.

Really...? Six wind turbines isn't enough to power this one small street?