Why does my geothermal plant not work?

[CrayolaMan]

I built a geothermal plant and it was working fine, until loads of low power signs came popping up over the city. I even built another one but the problem still persisted. Maybe there was a problem with the connection? Please help

[t.jacobs]

Cant really say without a screenshot of your power overlay, but I can think of two potential issues:
- geothermal plants need underground water deposits to function. But if they worked once, this shouldn't change.
- Each power connection (yellow line or blue high power line) has a certain capacity. If the demand is higher than what the power line can carry, some households stay without power. You can see how long the stripes are that crawl along your power connection in the power overlay. If the stripes have full lenght, the capacity of that line is used up.

To get more capacity, try to have power line connections to two different sides from the plant, so that power has two routes to go. Also directing power with the blue lines where it is needed, can help, if the yellow lines are overloaded. Also don't build all your power plants in the same area. If you distribute them, the grid has equal load everywhere.

[martinolund]

Underground water does deplete the more you use it but rain should fill it back up slowly over time, perhaps that is what happened. A water overlay would show us that.

[martinolund]

Could be all sorts of issues. Without some screenshots or even share the save game file so we can look in it there is not much we can offer in terms of help except for some generic things.

[CrayolaMan]

Ok I’ll send a screenshot