no workers inside power plants. why?

[Teschmacher]

I have a problem with powerplants (coal or gas) being inconsistent at producing power because sometimes there are no workers inside.

And why it is like that?

I have properly set up train passenger service running to the powerplant and from nearby city with enough of room to transport hundreds of workers , the train station is properly connected to the powerplant with walk ways and i have also set it in the proprieties tab where the workers should go. After some time, there are zero workers inside the powerplant untill next train arrives. This is weird, because i have a lot of workers without job in many buildings in the nearby city and there is only 15 workers needed to operate a powerplant!

A powerplant should operate at all time 24/7 and only cease to function in case of a major failure/fire or running out of needed fuel resources to run!

If the game wants to be realistic, this should be changed.. the powerplant workers must manage their timeshifts and the powerplant must be always manned in order to operate permanently as long as the powerplant is supplied with proper fuel!

is there any powerplant mod that can do this? TIA

[Oh snap!]

You could check the nearest transportation hub that you have supplying to the power plant and change the priority for said power plant so that it is the go to spot before any others.

All that remains is to have a constant supply of workers being transported to said hub for it to be effective

[pryt]

Use a dedicated bus station and lots of mini buses with line spacing to provide a constant flow. It may waste a little bit of workforce from time to time, but works.

Or, build your power plants in walking distance of the nearest residential area and set priority for the power plants.

You will never have a 100% 24/7 manning though, this is almost impossible to cover, but ~90% is possible more or less.

[joel.kaldma]

First of all, see how many workers you have at the starting station. In most cases, without configuration, none can fit. all the space is taken up by students, travelers and tourists.