Power (Building)

This article has not been revised for the current version (U51-600112). It was last updated for LU-356355. It may contain inaccuracies.

Power is needed to run machinery in a subterranean asteroid colony.

Generators can produce power automatically, but they will consume various resources (in case of renewables: heat above 125 °C and daylight).

All carbon burners produce 110+ °C hot Carbon Dioxide in varying amounts, which significantly contributes to their heat-footprint.

List of power buildings

	Manual Generator – available at the beginning. Quite clean, however it occupies valuable duplicant attention to run.
	Wood Burner – The most heat-inefficient of generators, it also produces copious amounts of CO₂, however it's fuel is easily accessible and renewable via Arbor Trees.
	Coal Generator – obtained from the Tier Two Research tree, category Internal Combustion. Coal Generators are more efficient and clean than Wood Burners or Petroleum Generators, and their fuel is also renewable in a relatively easy way.
	Hydrogen Generator – obtained from the Tier Three Research tree, category Advanced Power Regulation. The cleanest and the most heat-efficient of continuous burners. However, Hydrogen is sparse and has other important applications.
	Natural Gas Generator – obtained from the Tier Three Research tree, category Fossil Fuels. The cleanest, most efficient carbon-burner, however supply of its fuel can be somewhat limited without late-game conversion installations.
	Petroleum Generator – Obtained from the Tier Three Research tree, category Fossil Fuels. Burns through the fuel and creates a lot of by-products, including heat.
	Steam Turbine – obtained from the Tier Five Research tree, category Renewable Energy. It allow to get energy from heat directly, but requires some complicated setups.
	Solar Panel – makes power from space, clean and renewable, but must be protected from Meteor Showers. Also there is only so much asteroid surface.

	Wire - available at the beginning Wire Bridge - Obtained from the Tier One Research tree, category Power Regulation
	Heavi-Watt Wire and Heavi-Watt Joint Plate - obtained from the Tier Three Research tree, category Advanced Power Regulation
	Conductive Wire and Conductive Wire Bridge - Obtained from the Tier Four Research tree, category Low-Resistance Conductors
Heavi Conductive WireHeavi Conductive Joint Plate	Heavi Conductive Wire and Heavi Conductive Joint Plate - Obtained from the Tier Four Research tree, category Low-Resistance Conductors

	Battery - available at the beginning. Formerly known as "Tiny Battery" in previous versions.
	Jumbo Battery - Obtained from the Tier One Research tree, category Power Regulation
	Smart Battery - Obtained from the Tier Three Research tree, category Generic Sensors

	Power Transformer - obtained from Advanced Power Regulation, protect your networks from overload, however they are not powerful enough to fully utilize Conductive Wires without being placed in couples.
	Large Power Transformer - obtained from Low-Resistance Conductors, more powerful transformer, but can overload Conductive Wires.
	Switch - Obtained from the Tier One Research tree, category Power Regulation
	Power Shutoff - Obtained from the Tier Two Research tree, category Automatic Control