Problems with power

[Dragonmahbalz]

hello. i have been playing the game for about a week now and the biggest problems i have is electricity. at the current point in time i had to go to mods to get a bigger power plant because the base game power plant and getting power from the borders was not giving me even 1 mW of electricity. please help https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2089999856

[argent]

Are you throttling Mw with your choice of cable/pylon perhaps? I can't see them clearly but they look small.

[The Yankee Clipper]

Originally posted by argent:

Are you throttling Mw with your choice of cable/pylon perhaps? I can't see them clearly but they look small.

@OP the default setting for import/export is 1MW, so that must be increased in tandem with your power needs if you’re getting power at the border.

As argent pointed out, the screenshot looks like you’re using the smallest available transmission lines. Your throughput will always be limited by the size of the lines you use. As a test, try replacing all your existing medium voltage lines with the largest available medium voltage lines, and see if that fixes your problem.

[jwinter]

Are you sure you really need that much? Powerplant only produce what is needed and could be capped by wire capacity also you need to manually control amount of export/import. If you are importing power it will lower powerplant production because it produces what is needed minus imoprt. But clear screenshot of your wire network could help as it is very likely mistake is there.

But looking at the screenshots one more time there really is no issue. If there is lack of power kV/V value would drop. If it is at max. it is ok. Wattage is more like currently used/max. capacity of the node. Stop importing and check if everything is powered up - if voltage remains at max. there is no problem you are simply do not need that much power.

[Comrade Sky]

The problem is that you have a medium voltage line connected from the power plant to the switch, and the power goes from the power plan to the switch through it instead of through the high voltage line. I recently discovered the same bug.

[Dragonmahbalz]

Originally posted by argent:

Are you throttling Mw with your choice of cable/pylon perhaps? I can't see them clearly but they look small.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094133289

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094133257

i have moused over the wire lines i am using i have tried going from high lines voltage to a high voltage switch, i did high votlage lines straight to the power transformer, and i have down just low voltage to a going to power up my power hubs. even when i had 2 seperate power plants both full of coal and workers i still could not get more than 2-3 mw of power at the high voltage switchs that they were both hooked up too. which made me try a mod that gave me this power plant which is suppose to give 4x the power of a normal one and it like my power if vanishing into thin air.

[Dragonmahbalz]

power goes from power plant ----> High voltage line ----> high voltage switch ------> high voltage line ----> transformer. i should be making 5000 MWh but how output 3.2 MW with full resource and 50/80 workforce.

[Comrade Sky]

Originally posted by Souless-Conqueror:

Originally posted by argent:

Are you throttling Mw with your choice of cable/pylon perhaps? I can't see them clearly but they look small.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094133289

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094133257

i have moused over the wire lines i am using i have tried going from high lines voltage to a high voltage switch, i did high votlage lines straight to the power transformer, and i have down just low voltage to a going to power up my power hubs. even when i had 2 seperate power plants both full of coal and workers i still could not get more than 2-3 mw of power at the high voltage switchs that they were both hooked up too. which made me try a mod that gave me this power plant which is suppose to give 4x the power of a normal one and it like my power if vanishing into thin air.

Remove the low voltage lines. They are limiting capacity because the power plant is powering them instead of the high voltage route. The power output will instantly go up to where it should be.