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[@yuyaplays9311]

Biffa the water need to have a good level of flow to work properly with a hydro electric dam. That lake you tried to mess with was at a higher elevation than the rest of the water in the area and based off the water flow screen you showed it has a water source so it will always be producing water. If you make a river for that water to flow down and dam that off you can get some hydro power that way.

[@jimmyhughes5392]

i think the first dam may have been running backwards

[@rongoldman6654]

What's the average power use per Sim?

[@GENERALTIM21]

Turn up the budget and turn down the service fee for each of your services, the city balances out relatively quickly and makes each building much more effective, you also earn a lot more money and make people a lot more happy when you do

[@rokutv-2023]

When it showed the 127 kw then changed to 2.5mg that is bigger mega watt and killo watt (MG>KW)

[@nSnowCrow]

Biffa hydro needs 2 things: elevation difference and a stream or river to fill the upper reservoir. On a flat piece of lake you will have neither. And what you are calling a river is not really one.

[@jaredb8495]

It also takes time for the water to build up and produce the full amount of power

[@Mrkef]

Furthermore from my experience hydro dam in CS2 is currently a bit buggy. I've created map (actually it is import of heightmap of my older map for CS1) with focus on possibility to build hydro dam with lot of power and still I am getting just a ridiculous small fraction (like 20MW) of originally expected power (hint said expected power will be over 600MW).

[@TL126]

@17:38 is that a water source at the bottom right of the screen? Can that be exploited for a dam?

[@neilm838]

Could you use a sewage pipe as a source? Have that one side and the treatment plant the other side?

[@jasonfuentz4282]

This game is just crap. 💩💩💩🤔😟😪

[@mexieboy1]

Biffa! A few small tips maybe for the electricity and water :). small thing, you placed the 5 water pumps on the reservoir, with 2 water pumps you already are at 94% usage of the reservoir 25:03. With placing more than 2 you will drain the reservoir over time losing that water supply. second thing: the power lines under the road max transport 80 MW so placing transformers across the city is key, not placing them all by the powerstations(then the bottleneck under the road stays the same. you have to guide the big powerlines to the transformers placed across your city. the transformer puts max of 80MW in the streets, so 1 big powerline can support 5 transformer stations. Also for the import of power you still have, is there still am outside connection on the other side of the map? that maybe imports while you did not distribute power enough from the powerplants to the city? I am 99% sure this is the problem.

[@suahueNmiT]

This

[@rezaldimochammad3178]

Yeah, the big powerline needs to be distributed all over the cities with a lot of power station as a terminating point . This will reducing the small powerline bottleneck issues and equally distributing the power at the same time.

[@TierZGG]

Yeah he should connect the old power transformer that he already has in the city with the new power stations so they will stop importing you are 100% right about the problem so make an edit in your comment so he read it, I don't think he will read this comment

[@takumi2023]

Yeah, he never connected the power generation to his city. The power all goes straight out.😅

[@SoDakJason]

I literally said to myself "Biffa you wally, you're going to completely drain that underground water source."

[@Watsisneem86]

Hey Biffa! Great video! But remember: with great power comes great responsibilitea! Because your power production is all in one corner of the map, it's too much to push it all through the road grid. You should take 2 or 3 main power lines which are exporting power now and run them trough your whole map (along the highway for example). That way you can branch off those lines and give every borough/neighborhood their own transformer station. That should solve your 'power bottleneck' problem and stop your city from importing power from elsewhere.

[@ahmadnawaz-wz7gj]

I like how biffa turned into RCE just adding everything everywhere 😂😂😂

[@joelfilho2625]

Biffa, I don't know if you've fixed it in the video (still only at 5:20) but you're *still importing electricity!*, you made no power lines connecting your nuclear power plant to the actual power grid, meaning that while you're exporting ~600 MW, you're still importing the ~200 needed for your city, causing additional costs!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I may or may not have fixed that after the fact! 😬😀

[@joelfilho2625]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines oh, that's a relief. Good going.

[@Marcompam]

@@joelfilho2625 Was thinking about this also just now as i watch the video. I believe that power centrals do not share their power production to the city through the road connections, they must send them to the high voltage power lines first and go through a transformer unit to the city, and since Biffa only connected them to outside, they are not sending any to the city needs, only exporting.

[@tugamer89]

​@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines you haven't fixed yet in this video, maybe you did afterwards

[@alberto6169]

​@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylinesYou didn't tho lol, you're still importing. You need to place transformers all across the city and bring the 400 cables to each one. The reason you're still importing is that the only transformers that you do have spread out are connected to the outside. Basically you still have a bottleneck, energy still isn't flowing to the further part of the city correctly, it's just being "covered up" by your import (which is why the problem disappeared when you turned those transformers back on)

[@michip2883]

hey, first of all, I really like your videos! Unfortunately, in this episode, the whole effort was not very successful from a financial point of view. At the beginning of the episode you have a power balance of -$818,000 and at the end you have a balance of -$664,000. The maintanance costs of the power plants have eaten up almost all of your profit. This is because not every power plant generates a profit. For the detailed figures and a comparison of the power plants and all upgrades, I think there is a great guide on steam. I think it came out that the nuclear power plant, the geothermal power plant and solar are the best. As for your import problem, you need to lay a direct power line from your power plants directly to your city. I think the street cables can only transport 40MW. Once the 40MW are used up, nothing will reach the rest of the city or bottlenecks will occur like in your case in this episode. So you need to rethink your entire power grid and maybe start from scratch. Since your city only consumes around 300MW, only one power line would be enough. This means you only need 4 transformer stations at sensible locations in the city, as these can convert 80MW. You can then easily export the surplus electricity. I love your videos ❤

[@frotti5953]

Me working in the energy industry watching you connecting cables and turning of power stations is quite a challenge :D

[@joshgrimm8362]

Ditto!

[@TechyMantis]

Never thought I'd see the day when Biffa is mad with power

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

More POWER!!!!

[@TechyMantis]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Clarkson!! 😂

[@memorimusic420]

SPEED AND POWERRRR!!!!!@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

[@stevengalloway8052]

🤨 What do you mean? Why would Biffa be angry at power? 😏

[@maidenminnesota1]

HAHA! Good one!

[@PhtevenTheDuck]

Quick note on the first dam - at 14:46 you were at 2.32 MW which is significantly more than the 150 kW you got after putting deep water on both sides. I think you missed the difference in units 😉

[@PhtevenTheDuck]

(Obviously it's still a miniscule amount in the grand scheme of things, just something to keep in mind)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Oops! Ta :-)

[@Ghozer]

Yeah, I Was thinking that when he was looking at the max capability in MW compared to the kW he was reading from them....

[@djerykhornubis2466]

AAAhh, the comeback of "Biffa does not get water flow".... I laughed so hard my ribs hurt.

[@randomguy12345671]

Dont forget you can run powerlines underground and have them connect to power stations still, makes it much easier to route in your city.

[@maglore2]

20:32 Your new electricity plants output lines are not hooked to your city's power grid. They are all hooked to the outer city. This is why you are still importing.

[@joshuatester8197]

Power probably isn't getting to the bulk of the city because it doesn't run through highways. That's why you're still importing from off the map? Maybe a high voltage line to the outskirts then tranform it for local use?

[@TrevorD19]

Fantastic idea.

[@TrevorD19]

Run the particle accelerator around the map. Lol

[@CountryChurchyard]

Had the import issue also and postet on your dicord about it in October. You need to check, one part of your city is still not connected to your producing facilities, and just to the outside connection, that's why you still import a lot.

[@memorimusic420]

18:13 i think you can see the electricity flow through the cables in the electricity tab and then just click on the power lines :)

[@kevinstoop9398]

The older transformation station should be connected with a high voltage powerline from one of your powerplants. Then you would stop importing. Remember 400MW , so you can connect 5 transformers on 1 high voltage line

[@DrakeGamer85]

I got a few things to point out with your new power plant complex: 1. Can it be a district called BetterTea Power Complex? Or something kettle related, because all those powerplants make me think they are giant kettles brewing water for our tea! 🍵 2. Maybe include some transit options - a metro line so people can get there easily, and a cargo line so the plants can get access to fuel more easily than with lorries? Would ensure there is reduced traffic around the freeway intersection to the complex.

[@XaviusNight]

Your city will import power if you have no power storage because it can't stock what it makes anywhere for usage elsewhere. You also need to spread out your substations to allow the big power lines to output back into the city, cuz the underground lines can't handle the full load you're trying to send through them.

[@japes7]

If you click the electricity info view, you can hover over power lines to see the flow!

[@111elf1]

street power lines can only transport so much power. you need high voltage lines from your plants to city.

[@cypher686]

@14:43 you actually had it solved by lowering one side, but you got confused between MW and KW. You had over 2MW which is more than the 150 odd KW.

[@bonbon_k]

Biffa I think you've gone mad. This episode was like watching your sanity decline as time went on. I think you have a power export problem! Edit: Just got to the end part, if it isn't the consequences of your actions! lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@thecozies]

i suggest looking more into the service costs vs production of the individual types, im not entirely sure of specifics but iirc coal costs a good bit more than what is produced, even if completely sold. geothermal with perfect coverage can definitely make more than its operating costs, iirc i was getting $700K out of it with $300K monthly so roughly $400K net profit. im wonder which type ends up actually being the most profitable, potentially dams in an ideal scenario

[@TheRyanK]

Remember Biffa you can change the power line type with page up down keys

[@SportingMP]

I design transmission lines for a living and I cringed at the placement of the transmission lines and substations, both overhead and underground. Transmission lines are generally designed in a ring having main transmission lines looping around the city and connecting to the substations.

[@Nyliss]

Well, now I know why you were holding off on power production within the city. :D It was hilarious when you tried to place hydroelectric power stations right next to each other!

[@TheF0rseti]

I wonder, why nobody mentioned it, but you make an actual loss on your power generation. Your fuel imports and maintenance eat up all your gains. Maybe you can get a little surplus, when you manage to eliminate all power imports, but this project is no good money generator at all.

[@takumi2023]

Biffa needs to learn how power distribution works and come back with a how to distribute power video for us lol.

[@gauravyadav8937]

Solar panel store electricity to supply during night. Not for storage.😂

[@Konrad-z9w]

Looking at how those outside connections max out 400MW reminds me on why the Sahara isn't plastered with solar panels. There would have to be some gargantuan power lines crossing the Mediterranean to get electricity to Europe.

[@hydronpowers9014]

I don't understand why you're limited to only one nuclear power plant. It doesn't make sense realistically given that you have the capital, resources, manpower and reasons for more.

[@tannertanner9150]

Hi biffa huge fan hope you keep it up and more city videos!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks! Will do! 😀

[@unkl115]

Exporting electricity should make money, but i think CO need to nerf it a bit. There should not be unlimited demand to your outside connections. It should be capped seperately to each outside connection. So north connection wants 200mw and east wants 50mw and south wants 0mw maybe. Whatever the numbers m may be, you get the idea. That way you can sell of your excess without it being rediculous. It just seems a little too OP at the moment. Also, you need to place lots of transformers around your city and connect them to your plants with large power lines. the small lines only take 80mw. A simple example would be... If a single small line (80mw limit) is trying to supply a suburb that demands 200mw then that suburb will not get enough power. So connect a transformer up to that suburb and use the big lines (400mw) to give it power and you can send in enough. Your city is choking because you don't have enough transformers.power is bottle necking trying to get to the other side. Maybe run done large cables under you expressways and into some transformers along the way. Sorry if i didn't explain very well. It would be easier with diagrams.

[@wh15p]

I'd check your taxes as you may have the bug that I came across where one industry just starts raking in millions in tax for no reason. That could be why you're making nearly £3m an hour !!

[@hendrikheyen9445]

you need a high voltage powerline from the one side of the city to the other and the transformer stations online

[@mrprobably7123]

By having such a huge amount of electritity, you have to find a way how to use it) Next time we will see a field of colaiders?😂😂

[@a60-durvankrathiwadekar82]

Nice Video ❤

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you! 😊

[@techauthor324]

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" ... Lord Acton. There are some real world lessons here about power density.

[@Regailion]

Would it be too on the nose to name an area "Yorkshire Gold"?

[@imhim2484]

Here in Houston, Texas we are designated as the energy provider for our state. Maybe you should set the energy as a district and name it Energy Corridor as that’s what we call it here. Our Energy Corridor is complimented with many offices to support those energy companies

[@SouthKoreanSanta]

Finally Biffa builds power in Kettlebridge. Hip hip Hooray!🎉

[@fooboo98]

Kettlebridge should be a space travel hub .

[@EdwardClayMeow]

I normally import power until I can build a geothermal or nuclear powerplant. Never thought to build all the powerplants. Excessive, but entertaining.

[@execute1d]

I really impressed with details of electricity in this game. I think u should install a proper distribution powerline each town. nice video always😉

[@qyvonl5876]

the low voltage cables can not handle all the power of the power plants into the city, that is why the city lost power when you deactivated the transformers. The transformers are not connected to the power plants, that is why you are still importing power. Just draw some high voltage power lines from the power plants into all the transformers around the city. also, i think you make so much from exporting power that you can make it free for your city and still make a profit on power.

[@peter5394]

He would actually make way more money from the rest of the city if he turned the service fee off as all businesses get efficiency increases from having no service fees. That goes for the other service fees as well.

[@krzysztof-ws9og]

3:55 - exponential ? i think it is linear

[@beaty59]

You could rename this area Electric Kettlebridge

[@JuliannaL918]

Does anybody knows what map he plays on??:)

[@simo_2462]

That is a 2 reactor nuclear power plant outputting 878MW, while irl we have single reactors able to output 1000 to 1600MW... would have been cool to have multiple nuclear power plants in the game, small one ~400MW, medium ~800MW and large ~1600MW. Also nuclear power plants are usually build """modularly"""" so they could use the upgrade feature to add new reactors to the same plant

[@kopirait]

I think you need to put several transformer stations around your city and connect them and your power stations with those high power cables. Then you can stop importing. You need to understand that power delivery through roads are limited. You cant push all 200...300MW your city needs through 2...3 transformer stations or through 40MW roads. I think 4 or 5 transformer stations at central points with several road connections. I produce all my CS2 city energy via geothermal power plant and 0 import. And when you are power/energy layer you actually can see how much power goes through cables/or roads when you check a specific road or a high voltage line.

[@SpeedyHungarian]

u built a bunch of power plants, then did not connect them to the city network..

[@Lord_Void_Raven]

for the dam, on a flat map it is hard, so make a huge hole on land, all the way down, then place the dam and make a river flow into the hole via the dam. you had the right idea with that mountain you were making, just basically need to lower the whole thing so the water level rises.

[@pizzasammy]

You can run power cables underground?!

[@nichole2757]

For Hydro, could create a water source that starts at elevation and comes down a bit into a reservoir with the dam at the front, sitting at elevation with a stream at the foot of the dam flowing away

[@IAmZIyah]

I've been experimenting myself with the dam. Outside of seweage, I dont think there is a way to create a higher point of water source than what is pre-made on the map. If you know of a way, please share it. Only problem with the sewage is that there is no real way to effectively clean it before it hits the main waterway.

[@miguelgarriga4598]

You can place power lines underground

[@MrAdrianSW]

Thats not how a HydroElectric dam works sir! There are HydroPower sources that work by using water current, but those are not in the game. Think, Hoover Dam, or Claerwen in Wales.

[@CosmicFurFace]

Biffa, you need to use Electricity Mathematics (kinda like for Lanes)! Think of your power as a road network. Your power plants (=cims) are all in one corner. You only provided a local road (40MW) to get them to the city where power was needed (cims' jobs). And then you fretted over the "bottlenecks" when 250MW worth of cims (power) got into a jam on a 40MW road (road electric line). You needed HIGHWAYS/ARTERIALS (large 400MW power lines) to distribute the cims (power) to their collectors/local roads (distributed power transformers). I weep (snicker) at the great Biffa, Ruler of Lane Mathematics, Disperser of Traffic Jams, being defeated by a mere bottleneck. It was amusing, though 🤣, so keep em' coming... (P.S. - I don't think I've even *looked* at a thumbnail, or at least been aware of it, so... 🤷‍♂)

[@Funnyanimals-cn1pm]

Hey Biffa, why don't you play the game Transport Fiverr 2? I've been following you for 5 years. I'm from Saudi Arabia. I prefer to follow you and Seniac. You should try the game Transport Fiverr 2. I'm very beautiful and you should play it. You should like it 😩😩😩

[@hamedwaleed-ix9ff]

Name the electric era electro land

[@MrTwisted003]

Am I missing something? I thought you can click on the Pylons to see how much power they're running. So, the power stations have a power production limit, and that is based on it's efficiency... which changes +/- a bit. Each Plant is connected to the road for power, water, and sewage. The roads (and small power poles) can ONLY carry Low Voltage, and only so much of it (each road has its limits in their respective tooltip). It's usually enough to power your city, as long as you don't have bottlenecks. Meaning a few or more road connections to different points of the city. The High Voltage Pylons only carry power to your outside connections, or to a Substation which makes it Low Voltage for the cities use. This is why you can be exporting all that electricity and still be importing it elsewhere. Although the Pylons can carry 400MW, I think each outside connection can carry more, or less, (I don't remember) but I'm sure it's not the same 400MW. Don't quote me on that, I could be wrong... LMK if you please! The Dam is a tricky one. I wish they showed a better view when placing it, being as it costs so much to put down, then move when you put it in backwards... like half of the ones Biffa placed in the lake area. I believe the power connects to the backside, and there are little structures opposite them on the front side. The 2 square looking things in the middle, I believe is the Overflow structure of the Dam. The little circles on the one side, is where the water enters the Dam towards the turbines inside, which produce the electricity. The water has to be moving, like a River, and it has to be up to at least those inlet circles to start producing electricity. I don't know if you can exploit them the same as we did in CS1 by dropping the ground level in front. I think it still might work, only because water falling further down does create more electricity (irl). So not 100% if the exploit works the same or not. The Dam will actually back the water up behind it, raising the water level (as dams do) to it's overflow, and the water level in front will naturally drop as the dam gets to work. Also, I noticed with the Geothermal Plant, you don't need it to straddle the groundwater spot. There is one spot in the plant that connects to the underground deposits, and you can see [in the tooltip] as you move it around. It tells you how much, if any, power it will be able to produce as you hover it around the deposit. This makes it able to put two in close proximity using the same underground water. You only then need to keep an eye on they don't choke each other like the water Facilities do.

[@drmoshie]

You're still importin because you never connected your power stations to your city, only to the outside.

[@janpolacek8184]

I don't know how it is possible, but garbage in my city ended up like 340,000 in the plus, keeping my city afloat😂 (500,000 garbage income, 160,000 garbage expenses)

[@northernwolfentertainment1654]

Hey Biffa, with both the high and low voltage power lines, you can page up to build lines that will hold even higher amounts of power!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Really? I thought it was just visual changes 🤔

[@northernwolfentertainment1654]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines In CS1 I think it was just visual, but to my understanding, in CS2, it actually affects the capacity!

[@EVEDaniel]

it is still a visual only change@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

[@TypicxlSortOfOdd]

Biffa, I beg of you. Get rid of your electricity and water fees, it highly increases commercial, industry, specialized industry, and office efficiency; it’s better. Correct me if I’m wrong btw.

[@plip13]

This place could be named : Power Gulch !! Hello, thx for the vid, but as usual, you forget to add to this locations some restaurants and bars and shop and food trucks for the workers. I'm thinking of a small town too. Maybe on this smal island on the right.

[@trosinb]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet. You can run the power lines underground at different depths and cross them as you wish. You can also run them under water and off the grid to external power. Figured that out the hard way. One of the annoyances I've found with dams is that you can produce 16 GW of power but you only get 2x400MW connections.

[@HolgerNestmann]

Hey Biffa, as you do seem to be in contact with RCE and seem to enjoy at least similar experiments, could you maybe start a collaboration. I understand you don‘t want particular strong shapes on your channel, but maybe you can guest host on his channel or show him over screenshare whats going in terms of traffic. I am sure RCE could do the same on your channel and maybe behave, maybe

[@n1c3bench11]

You still import so much energy because your citiy has not enough connections to your power plant hub. the three connections are bottlenecks. Add some more roads and/or liines :) great job tho, love your builds. I can really relax while watching

[@fokeyjo]

Shouldn't you express the available power in numbers of kettles that can boil at once? :D Also, you didn't pull up the pollution stats... I bet they're horrendous!

[@christopherwilcott5936]

I bet someone has comment this already but you need to run high voltage lines to your main city from Powerland and the use transformers. In my Archipelago city, I had power bottlenecks between my islands. I ran high voltage between the island and connected the low power side to a transformer. Problem solved.

[@ryanspooner092]

You're still importing 200MW because all that you're generating is going straight out of the map, you dont have it connected to your own grid with enough capacity cables.

[@jonblair5470]

It was still costing you 650k/ month net, your energy costs were still more than what you made from export earnings. Mainly because the maintenance and you not being connected to your own grid.

[@dododebil1412]

you have to connect powerplants with your city using high voltage power line and distribute it to your transformers because your low voltage grid that you have under roads can only take 80MW i think so that's why you're still importing power from the outside

[@matteoboscolo348]

In late game i see power grid is an issue to deal with! I see you also experienced the tax income bug, i don't know exactly why, i see income of 72 million from taxes at 1:23 , more or less same as mine is a quite little city, there is something wrong, no balance at all. Thanks for your videos Biffa

[@nathancantino5669]

this is great, i was thinking of doing this too for $,,.. yet i found out i maxed my city .. i cant make any more $ ... 2 billion, making a few mil a month. city is 100% happy.. mostly all balanced. well balenced as well as the game lets you.

[@shaunw8637]

not far into vid sittin with cuppa like "underground biffa - go underground" ... later in vid "compleatly forgot about that" wait did biffa hear me?

[@GENERALTIM21]

Turn up the budget and turn down the service fee for each of your services, the city balances out relatively quickly and makes each building much more effective, you also earn a lot more money and make people a lot more happy when you do

[@tomkeks502]

Why did you place so many new power transformation stations? You could just have disconnected all the existing ones from the outside world and connect them individually to your new power plants.

[@Anatol_Tobler]

i think you need a transformer to convert some of the enery to your city. Highvoltage that comes out of a electrical plant dosent go well whit home apliance. Thats why you sill import energy.

[@Ytbinger]

You need at least 3 more transformers to reduce your electricity from high voltage to low, which is why you're still importing 200mw.

[@danielboothman567]

Still importing power at the end of the video as it cannot reach the far side of the city from the generators due to the bottlenecks 😊

[@TierZGG]

Plz don't stop making videos every 2 days, and if u can make it everyday

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁👍

[@jwillard1971]

Idk if it was mentioned, but you were confusing kw and mw with the hydro. When it was saying 200+ it was kw which is less that 1.5 mw

[@kyleanderson3787]

29:02 I just had an instant thought, what if your building all these power plants along the border of your city and another city, but what you can’t see is all the suburbs right on the other side of that border. Those poor people in the next city over hahaha 🤣

[@WidowedPanda7]

Hey Biffa, you can put the high voltage power lines in the ground so you can increase the amount of space to build more power plants to make even more profits.

[@f2cmadmaxx]

Well, it *was* making a bunch of money until the last look at the finance panel, where it's now somehow losing ~600k - figure in top left is the result of the balance sheet.

[@GuillaumePerronNantel]

Time for me to watch the video a 3rd time. I wasn’t awake enough the first two to remember much. But now I slept so I will be enjoying the video

[@joeg1250]

Maybe its the electrician in me, but it made me scream when Biffa asked "why we are not using are own power" when he only hooked it up the outside. xD

[@shhoodali5854]

If you can scatter thte powerplants to other locations keeping the clean ones near the population or where the wind direction doesn't favor it with air pollution and to the other ends of the map. Then it will be easier to manage the grid load and import will be reduced by providing separate powerlines and grid stations to individual areas from your powerplants.

[@Ankles]

Biffa! I think you should add specialized coal industry, you'll reduce import costs of coal for the power stations

[@joeri7701]

Mr Biff,have you any idea iff there is a difference between to small farms or one big one?the harvest looks the same,onky double amount of workers?

[@birk22]

Hey, I might be wrong, but I think you can put your high voltage power lines also under ground😊 so no running out of space🥳

[@Dirtbagmoto1]

I've always found the hydro electric painfully hard to use

[@Nefilum]

In a modern city like this the coal- and gas-power plants should maybe just go into the rubbish bin of history.

[@bonknana]

I know it needed to be done to make space for the power station but you removing all those trees hurt my soul 😭 please can you plant more and perhaps make a forest national park to make up for it? /nf xx

[@ram64man]

Why are you exporting all the electric, the power lines in the city can only handle so much this is why your still importing power, you have to connect up the city to high power lines either above or below to handle high power supply nd glance it across the city using the power inverter

[@Josh460s]

Most of the city is still using imported electricity rather than from the power plants. You need to connect the high voltage lines from the power plants to transformers around the city.

[@valiarianthorson7582]

BIffa maybe you should Put the points on The Emergy shelters and so Disasters Will come and go

[@pauljohnson2023]

you are still drawing 200MW on the other side of the city. If you recall you maxed out the draw on the other side and that was when you put in the tiny little run near the airport to balance out the power draw across the city.