All the power you need for an early/mid game city

"Simcity"
Wait, that's illegal

For me, it only generates 160 MW

@09

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_transmission#Microwave_power_transmission

Please make the service buildings from sc3000 as well!!!

Perfect! I love this plant.

FUCK YEA!!!

(Y) <3

Updated for After Dark

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Any plans on updating this for the night time?

in game it only produces 20mw for me. wtf. FIX thanks

Simply reedit the asset with lower parameters, Next all it becomes is a standalone powerline!

+1 for radio telescope

Could put a bunch of these together to make a giant radio telescope and count as observatory or science center. :)

yeeEEEEEES

Any chance of a version of this as a unique building with no power generation?
I like the model don't especially want it as a powerplant!

Everyone! Thanks a lot for commenting and rating! :)

This is awesome!

Thank you a lot for this!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite power plant!!!!

Such a blast from the past.

Thank you!

Orbital microwave space power. Amazing, just perfect.

OMG!!!! Friggin awesome... That probably explains why Cities Skylines is the best city builder yet... If the game doesnt have it, the people will make it... Now we have awesome radar dishes... oh ya!!!

You did a good, good thing here. All my love and favorites! Thank you for making these!

It evokes memories of my playing SimCity 3000

Oh man - So much nostalgia. Now I just need my arcologies and I'm set. :D

We need natural gas power plant :)

oh thx

plz make

oil power plant & natural gas power plant

@Doughnut Well I'm going to attempt to run the game on Windows and see if it works. The latest patch for the game makes the game run really smooth under Linux, but I don't see why this wouldn't work. All of the mods and other assets run fine, but things like this (or new unique buildings) don't show up. :/

@Kain, as far as I know the Linux build for this game functions a little less smoothly than the developers had anticipated. I'm on windows, so I'm afraid I can't really be of any value when troubleshooting your Linux install.

@Doughnut I restarted my game and it's still not there. The content manager shows it as active, however. Which menu would this be in? (I'm on Linux, could this be apart of anything..?)

@Kain, restart your game and check your Content Manager. Should work if it is present and checked!

I subscribed but I don't see it in any of the menus. Did I forget something? :(

@Wintermote, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410262670 :)

@Wintermote, your reasoning is sound, though unfortunately you are in the minority. What I'll do is, I'll make another instance of this plant with realistic specifications so you and others can decide which one you like best.

@Zonkis, that stuff is crazy! Thank you for this. I'm adding it to the slideshow right now.

Hey I have an image for you for your slideshow I just made.
http://i.imgur.com/qVArdYK.jpg

Doughnut, here are the principles of microwave rectennas:
1. Satellites are put in orbit to get sunlight, increasing efficiency significantly (no atmosphere filtering light - 144% increase, and nearly 24/7 light exposure)
2. These satellites beam the power back to earth using microwaves at a frequency which will pass through the atmosphere
3. A ground station rectenna receives these microwaves and converts them into electricity at 90%+ efficiency

The benefit of a rectenna over traditional photovoltaic:
- More space efficient (A 2x2km array in space can beam power to a 100m dish on the ground)
- Low installation cost/cheaper (unless you pay for the satellite as well)

The expensive part of rectennas are the solar satellites in orbit - if you assume that those are already bought/paid for, then rectennas are stupidly cheap to build. If you assume they aren't, then it's stupidly expensive. (but low on maintenance, either way)

Water shouldn't be necessary for cooling - the high efficiency and relatively low energy (5-20MW per satellite) means there isn't much waste heat.

For balance reasons, I'd probably include the price of the satellite with the rectenna. It would thus essentially be (in gameplay terms) a solar power station in a smaller space at a much higher cost. Perhaps something like:

4x4
$100,000
20 MW
$300 /wk maintenance

Oh my god, you're the man. I love this.

Great work, Doughnut. In my opinion, the stats are OK. Your reasoning of the water use sounds plausible, so I like it as you made it. Even a higher water usage is OK.

@Wintermote & @Heavy, if you feel the stats should be different, can you suggest replacement stats?

Also, to justify my decision on this. Balancing this one is difficult. It's an unconventional way of harnessing energy from micro waves. I assumed this type of energy collection creates friction due to the 'micro'-waves, thus heating up elements and requiring a lot of coolant. For gameplay purposes I simply translated that to the use of water. As for the power outage, I agree it should be a little lower, but since many peeps suggested this plant to be REALLY big (12x12 grid blocks) I settled for a higher output. Wouldn't be a reasonable investment otherwise.

Added to my Simcity 3000 Collection! GREAT work.

Looking great, but I don't like the stats either :(

@wintermote - stats are same as the nuclear plant, so actually the stats are UNDERPOWERED because it takes up a lot more room [12x12 I think]

Looks neat, but the stats are crazy. Way too much power, and uses water/waste? It's a rectenna receiving energy from solar satellites in orbit. Why would it need so much water or create so much waste?

I hope it randomly bursts into flames still, I lost so many cities blocks to these things back in the day

A Power Plant just to power my Microwave oven! I Love it!

Oh my God, stuff from my favourite Sim CIty ;)

My hero! Thanks for this