![]() ![]() So you don’t have to be ready to evacuate everyone who lives nearby. truck or even tugboat, decreasing construction costs enormously. It looks like my citizens have discovered how to harness the power of nuclear fusion.The small size of NuScale’s Small Modular Power Module means it can be factory-built and shipped by. To be honest, I don’t think this plant is burning hydrogen. Electricity produced by this futuristic plant costs the same as solar and is, as the game claims “clean and safe”. The final power plant is the hydrogen power plant, some strange futuristic power plant that gets hydrogen from…somewhere, and burns it cleanly in the most futuristic looking thing ever and produces 3 times as much power as a nuclear power plant in the same space as one city block. The only downside is that, if poorly maintained, there is the possibility of a meltdown or radiation leakage, so be sure to keep it funded properly! It costs more than natural gas power but less than solar.Īs an amusing social commentary and throwback to the older days of environmentalism, each nuclear power plant comes with its own everpresent swarm of anti-nuclear activists with picket signs. It puts out an insane amount of power and uses very little land, being the equivalent of three solar arrays or about 16 city blocks worth of wind power. Your city has to have a good high-tech industry and have an electrical demand of roughly 4 coal power plants in order to qualify for this power plant. The next power plant you get is the nuclear power plant. Furthermore, they either have wonderful batteries or some other storage mechanism in that plant, because it continues to meter out the same power load at night as it does during the day, which I am extremely grateful for as it makes my job of city management much easier. This is, again, much more optimistic than in the real world. The electricity produced by the solar power plant costs about 3x as much as coal, or 1.5x as much as natural gas. The solar thermal plant takes up about twice as much land area as the coal power plant. One can probably assume that this means that if your city doesn’t have enough rich people, they don’t have enough political clout to acquire the blueprints for you to build solar power, whereas if your approval rating is under 55%, the wealthy are collectively withholding the information from you out of spite. The requirements for solar thermal are to have at least 3,000 high wealth residents in your city and to have a mayor approval rating of over 55%. The first is the solar thermal power plant. Here is a visual representation of a coal plant and the equivalent generating capacity in wind power.Īs you progress in the game, new sources of power open to you. In real life it’s much greater than this, but the game likes to make it easy for you. The equivalent area of windmills needed to produce that power is about 4 city blocks. A coal, oil, or gas power plant takes up about the same amount of room as a city block. Furthermore, like in real life, the wind farms take up huge swathes of area. The windmills are the most expensive way to get power, at about 2x the cost per unit of power than natural gas, or 6 times that of coal. You have to pay 3 times as much for natural gas power as you do for coal. The natural gas plant, bottom right, pollutes quite lightly but costs about 1.5 times as much as the coal plant costs to run and only produces half the power output. Oil, pictured top left, pollutes the air heavily and generates lots of power cheaply. Coal, at the top right, generates massive amounts of air pollution but generates tons of power for cheap. When you begin to play, only 4 of the 7 possible power plants are unlocked. Essentially, the cheapest power is the dirtiest power, and the most expensive power is the cleanest power. The power sources you are given mirror real life surprisingly well, although admittedly some of the alternative power sources are portrayed as much more effective than they are in real life. Other than that generally cost-prohibitive method though, you need to build power plants to power your city. Hook up a high-tension power line, pay some money, and plug in. ![]() The most simple power source is other neighboring cities you built. Power can come from a multitude of sources. ![]()
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