Power whole towns with power grid function

[Grimmo]

I know this sounds like a long shot, but would it be possible to somehow fix a power plant or substation that could power a town? It would need electrician level 10 of cours. It’s been done a few times in apocalypse shows like the last of us. I feel like this would be the best alternative other than placing generators everywhere and having to maintain them.

[Nowthere27]

I'd like that.

 

It'd be nice instead of having to use generators or converting plug in electronics to battery use.

[AleristheSeeker]

I think the key problem with this would be: how do you run it?

 

There is, afaik, a Power Station in Louisville irl, but that is a natural gas power station, which simply wouldn't work without tremendous amounts of natural gas, which doesn't even exist in the game.

 

Even for smaller, player-built powerplants, there really isn't much that could be done that wouldn't require immense amounts of resources that would likely have to be shipped in from somewhere - which brings its own problems. Smaller-scale power stations that could power a small village might be feasible, perhaps by using hydroelectric power or something, but something to power all of Louisville, for instance, seems borderline impossible.

 

[Jasdan]

Some of the game river zones could be marked as available for building basic Hydroelectric stations, enough to power a settlement, and maybe big enough for a section of a city.
Other stations would use fuel, we could also have large generators that use steam.