Power Problems

[short hinge]

I am have no idea what the issues is with my power but im using Nuclear power and i have lots of excess.

[true vale]

Are you sure the power plant is connected to your roads?

Or maybe if you have a road or pipes that aren’t connected to the main grid?

Basically just make sure everything is connected up. There will be a little white mark in the cables if electricity is flowing

[short hinge]

i guess it could be but it just kinda stared on day.

[charred blaze]

Two issues:

1 ) Buildings can only utilize low-voltage power
2 ) Low-voltage lines have limited capacity

The most common cause is when all power for an area is delivered by a single road or low-voltage power line and demand exceeds its capacity. The bottleneck will usually generate an overload icon at the choke point.

To avoid such issues, it's a good idea for each larger development area to have its own dedicated power substation (aka transformer) connected by high-voltage lines.

(I also noticed a lot of sewage complaints, though that may be caused by the power issues.)

[short hinge]

yeah i have been messing with it my power Nuclear power plan only goes to the closest transformer.

sewage was casued by power

[urban coyote]

you need transformers around the place

yeah you dont make it just go to 1 transformer

or else ur capped at around 80 MW

[charred blaze]

And roads are capped at 40 MW

[urban coyote]

ye

[short hinge]

alright ill mess with it again. Thanks. Ill come back if i have other questions

Yeah looks like a easy fixed once explained to me. Thanks Guys.

[urban coyote]

nice

yw

[solar sun]

There's something i don't understand.
1- why isn't there any over capacity warning icon
2-this matters less, but usually when i have a cable problem the buildings stop receiving electricity in further areas, and generally a lot of buildings in an area, and not random building scattered across the map

Tho if it worked no problem

[urban coyote]

there is an over capacity icon

i dont understand what ur tryna say in the second point

[charred blaze]

Think of the power lines as water pipes - say a particular line has a capacity of 40MW...
~ The first area bleeds off 15MW, leaving 25 MW to continue down the line
~ The second area bleeds off another 15MW, leaving 10MW to continue down the line
~ The third area also needs 15MW but there's only 10MW left, so those areas start complaining there's not enough power

[urban coyote]

oh yeah i see what he means now

so ig he needs to add a transformer to the further areas

[solar sun]

Lemme explain

This is how i usually lose power

In the image it looks like this