Energy Storage

🔋 Energy Storage

Grid batteries for your power grid: they soak up the power nothing else needs and give it back the moment your grid runs short, built from battery packs you make yourself, starting from brine.

Three battery buildings from a 2 MW battery cabinet to a 24 MW, 48 MWh battery park, and a complete lithium production chain with two new factories in three levels each.

🔋 Grid batteries

• ⚡ Charge only from spare power: what your generators could make minus what the grid needs right now; batteries never charge from each other
• 🔌 Give power back automatically when all your other generators together cannot cover the demand (they are the last generators the grid uses), so nothing overloads while they have charge
• ♻️ About 90 % round trip: 95 % of what goes in is stored, 95 % of that comes out again
• 🎛️ Modes in the window: Auto, Charge only, Give out only, Off, with a charge bar and what goes in and out right now
• 🗄️ Battery cabinet: 6 × 4 tiles, 2 MW, 4 MWh
• 🧱 Battery block: 12 × 8 tiles, 8 MW, 16 MWh
• 🏞️ Battery park: 24 × 16 tiles, 24 MW, 48 MWh

🏭 Your own battery production

• 🧂 Lithium plant I-III (new): brine and acid into lithium carbonate and salt, 20 / 12 / 8 s
• 🧪 Cathode powder and electrolyte from lithium carbonate in the vanilla chemical plants
• 🔋 Battery cell factory I-III (new): cathode powder, electrolyte, graphite, copper and aluminium into 16 battery cells, 40 / 25 / 16 s
• 🤖 Battery packs in the vanilla robotic assembly: 16 cells + electronics II + steel
• ⬆️ Both new factories upgrade in place
• 🔍 Detailed models: louvred cabinet doors and fans, transformers, a fenced substation, evaporation ponds at the lithium plant, cars, signs and lights

How to start

1. Research Battery production (after Chemical plant II and Robotic assembly) for the lithium plant, the battery cell factory and the recipes.
2. Build a lithium plant (brine and acid in) and make cathode powder and electrolyte in chemical plants.
3. Make battery cells in the battery cell factory and battery packs in a robotic assembly.
4. Research Grid batteries for the cabinet and the block, Battery parks for the park, and build them from the Power toolbar.

Good to know

• Can be added to existing saves, but not removed once you have built its buildings or products.
• Factory levels II and III: Battery production II (after Power generation III) and Battery production III (after Electronics IV).
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original. No game files included.