Power Won't reset after an outage.

[TheCrazyEyesKillah]

I have about 1.2 MW of coal power with a few back-up Biomass generators. I keep getting power failures because my factories keep expanding. I decide to build a brand new coal plant but I can't get enough power to it to bring it on-line. I went back to my factory and cut a few major lines and I still can't get the power to stay on, even with the help of a few wind turbines and the biomass generators running. Any ideas?

[Mod Sloth]

My first thought is to check your water supply. When my coal plants go down, I have a pair of "jumper" biomass burners setup to power the necessary water extractors and pumps. Once the water gets into the coal generators, then they come online.

[monkebro]

have fluid buffers

[Mr. Fibble]

Don't hook the new setup into the main grid until its all running.

Use a biomass genny to get the water flowing from one pump and another for the coal (or drop in a stack of coal) and only allow coal belt to feed one coal plant at a time to make sure the power is self sustaining.

At this point you can discard the biomass, connect it to the main grid and smile.

[Bobucles]

Fluid buffers are a trap and a wasted effort. Set up the water supply to provide PEAK water and not a drop less.

[Hezz]

I will admit I don't really see much of a point for fluid buffers, besides maybe stockpiling some liquid to pour back into a grid in an emergency, but if you have everything set up right, there won't *be* an emergency. You also get no sort of warning when a fluid buffer starts draining out, so unless you're checking it regularly you'll run out of liquid eventually anyway, buffer or no, and you won't know until everything comes to a grinding stop.

That said, I like the look of them, and always end up adding them to my pipelines anyway just to spruce things up a bit, and I like looking at a fluid buffer and seeing it nice and full, too.

[Miles Away]

How many water extractors are you running and how are they connected?

[Lil Puppy]

Pure coal supplies for 8 coal generators at maximum capacity. Don't be fooled by the low consumption if you're not using all the power, always feed max.
Normal coal supplies for 4 coal generators at max.
Impure coal supplies for 2 coal generators at max.
Those are for Mark I Miners, Mark II miners you can double the amount of generators it can supply and so forth for the other miner versions.

For 8 coal generators you need 3 water extractors strategically placed equidistant from each other in the pipeline for your coal generators.

8 coal generators need 360 water, a water pipe maxes at 300, so by placing the extractors at strategic points (1 at the first generator, 1 at the last, and one between the 4th and 5th generators) you can max out the pipes for each set of 4 and have a little extra capability that you don't need to worry about.