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Mar 18, 2015 @ 10:55am
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Wind Turbine (Real Power mod)

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Wind Turbine (Real Power mod) by condac

Wind 2 MW
Coal 200 MW
Oil 200 MW
Solar tower 55 MW
Advanced Wind 10 MW
Nuclear unchanged at the moment, but probably 750 MW
Hydro also unchanged at the moment.

I have made new versions of all powerplants using real world examples of power productions. I thought lots of powerplants produced to much power in relation to each other. So if a nuclear powerplant produce 640MW a wind tubine should only produce 0.42MW, and the biggest solarfarms electric output in average over a year is a lot less for example. And coal powerplants produce a lot more..

I hope more people will realize that powerplants in this game have a strange balance and need to be more realistic.

Thanks for Input! I have done lots of "wikipedia-research" to get Numbers :)
The biggest nuclear power plant I have found is Oskarshamn 3 in Sweden and it produces 1450 MW of elecricity (and swedish wikipedia states its the biggest in the world of that type, subject to change?), typical Nuclear power plant is 1000MW. People often present values for a total site with about 5 Plants, and then you get the numbers up to around 3000MW total. I used the average nuclear power production in Sweden and during a year with downtimes for service total production is 741MW per plant (954MW installed capacity). Not to far from games already 640MW, This is why I have changed all but nuclear to have the same conditions in relation to the nuclear that was already pretty close to real life numbers. Wind power with the same calculation in sweden is 0.42MW per plant (1.76MW installed capacity average). And biggest Windturbine installed in sweden is 4.1MW. Solar numbers often refer to thermal MW not electricity MW. And game don't handle loss of wind and solar during year so I have avereged total production per year, once the game handle variating condition the values can be boosted.
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Grenzlos Jan 19, 2022 @ 9:31pm 
In which local file do you go to make this modifications? I would like to do my owns
roberto tomás Oct 3, 2015 @ 8:34am 
yeah I was thinking about that.. It would be nice if solar took into account the biome, generating more power near the equator (tropical>temperate>european>boreal), and adding variability for clouds. I just don't know how to do that :)
Brumolf  [author] Oct 3, 2015 @ 8:26am 
I have made a variating wind mod also, but it can be a bit buggy, and useless because no other power is variating with it
roberto tomás Oct 3, 2015 @ 7:37am 
hi condac. there are many 8mw water installations, and 4mw on water and land. of course that is peak output, and usually it is producing less. For that, a mod like variable wind speed is better than limiting the top output, imo. still I can appreciate the effort that went into researching this.
Brumolf  [author] Mar 19, 2015 @ 1:15am 
How I thought when selecting wind turbines 2MW: The biggest in the world is 10MW, but real world examples show that when the wind don't blow all year round it only produces 23% of its maximum capacity in year average. Game don't have variating wind conditions so 2MW is the value I have selected.
Brumolf  [author] Mar 19, 2015 @ 1:03am 
Thanks for Input! I have done lots of "wikipedia-research" to get Numbers :)
The biggest nuclear power plant I have found is Oskarshamn 3 in Sweden and it produces 1450 MW of elecricity (and swedish wikipedia states its the biggest in the world of that type, subject to change?), typical Nuclear power plant is 1000MW. People often present values for a total site with about 5 Plants, and then you get the numbers up to around 3000MW total. I used the average nuclear power production in Sweden and during a year with downtimes for service total production is 741MW per plant (954MW installed capacity). Not to far from games already 640MW
Fornix Mar 18, 2015 @ 1:15pm 
What did you change the power values to? As the true odd thing in this game is the low power output on the nuclear power plant, producing only 640 MW, roughly 70k people worth power. Realistic nuclear power plants go up a lot higher, the order of 3000 MW and providing electricity for close to half a million people is not out of the ordinary. Neither are 8 MW wind turbines.