Electricity: Production, Transportation, and Storage

Electricity is essential if you want your machines to function. It's important to know how to produce, transport, and store it! These explanations are also available in a video: Click here 🎬

1. Electricity Production

Coal Generator

The coal generator produces electricity as long as it contains coal. You'll need to wait for it to heat up before enjoying its full power, which is 10 KW.



Solar Panels
Solar panels produce electricity when exposed to sunlight. There are three types, each with a different maximum power output:

- Basic solar panel: Up to 9 KW.
- Advanced solar panel: Up to 9 KW.
- Improved solar panel: Up to 35 KW (requires engineer skill level 1).



Incinerator
The incinerator burns items to transform them into energy. It can produce up to 3 KW once it reaches its maximum heating level.



Diesel Generator
The diesel generator converts diesel into electricity. It can produce up to 200 KW once it reaches its maximum heating level.

2. Electricity Transportation

To transport electricity between different machines in your network, you need to use electrical cables. The maximum power a large cable can transport is 300 KW.

Aluminum Cable	Reinforced Aluminum Cable	Tritium Cable
300 KW	600 KW	Infinite

There are other cables with the same properties but different textures. Each cable is a separate electrical line.



You can control your network with a switch. When green, it lets electricity pass; when red, it blocks it.



An electric meter shows how much electricity has passed through a cable. Place it anywhere on your network.

3. Electricity Storage

There are three methods to store electricity. Firstly, you can use batteries placed on your electrical network. Batteries cannot exceed 100 KW of output power.

- Battery: Capacity of 5 MJ.



- Advanced Battery: Capacity of 20 MJ. Requires engineer skill level 2.



The second method involves using cells. This method is restrictive and cannot directly power machines. A cell has a maximum storage capacity of 5 MJ.



The last method is to use a plasma accumulator. You'll need three components to start building it:

Plasma Resonance Block	Plasma Accumulator Structure	Plasma Accumulator

Here's an example starting position for your accumulator:

There are three power tiers. The higher the tier, the more storage capacity.

There are 3 power tiers. The higher the tier, the greater the storage capacity.

	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Structure
Visual
Storage Capacity	5120 MJ	20480 MJ	46080 MJ

For your information, plasma resonators have two sides: an input and an output (to retrieve electricity).

Updated on: 25/03/2024