Satisfactory Power Guide: good and efficient solutions

Energy solutions for every part of your game

Depending on whether you are just at the beginning of Satisfactory and have just started or are a complete newcomer, or whether you have already made your way through the middle section to the end game, you should use different energy sources to supply your production for each stage in Satisfactory.

Early-game energy solutions

As you naturally don't have the full range of available resources at your disposal at the start of Satisfactory, energy that you can obtain from biomass is particularly suitable here. Biomass itself consists of all kinds of different organic materials that you can collect in the world of Satisfactory and convert into your first fuel. Leaves, wood, mycelium and alien organs are the four resources from which you can produce biomass and use it to fuel biomass burners. Of course, you can also use the individual components such as wood and leaves to provide energy at the very beginning, but you should not continue doing this for so long, as biomass is much more relaxed.

If you have already leveled up and have unlocked the technology for producing biofuel, you can produce 2x biofuel from 4x biomass - biofuel burns longer than biomass and provides more energy. To avoid suddenly finding yourself without a power supply, you should produce a good supply of biomass at the start of Satisfactory so that you can replenish it quickly. And of course you can also build several biomass burners, but you shouldn't overdo it, because as the game progresses and you have more and larger production chains, you will of course have to ensure a better supply.

Mid-game energy supply

After a few hours in Satisfactory and familiarizing yourself with the versatile game mechanics and your first steps and tours on the planet, it's high time to take your energy supply to a new level. As long as you keep working on expanding and improving your factory, you will unlock new technologies and reach milestones all by yourself. As you progress, you will eventually be able to unlock coal energy, which will definitely be a significant improvement on biomass.

With the first automated energy supply, you can benefit above all from having more time to concentrate fully on expanding your factory again. Once you have unlocked the coal power technology, you should build the first coal generators. Note, however, that each one of them naturally requires coal and water to run efficiently. You can find coal randomly in the world, or you can use the object scanner. Make sure to build your coal generators near water sources so that you can ensure a stable water supply with the water extractors you build.

Late-game energy supply

Your factory is probably extremely complex and above all huge by now, which of course means that you need to get all the energy you can. If you're getting to the point where your coal generators are no longer sufficient to power your machine complexes, it's high time for another upgrade. Oil and nuclear power will be your new best friends and to be able to mine oil, you need to place oil pumps on oil deposits. The crude oil is then converted into fuel in a refinery, which in turn is needed to fire fuel generators. These generators are even more powerful and efficient than coal generators.

With a lot of hours of gameplay and a lot of progress in Satisfactory, you will soon be able to unlock nuclear power. This incredibly powerful and high-quality energy source not only requires you to learn how to handle uranium - the nuclear waste it produces must also be disposed of properly. As soon as you mine uranium, you have to wear a protective suit so that you are not exposed to radiation. The uranium is then used to make uranium fuel rods, which you can use to operate nuclear power plants. Non-fissile uranium can be used to produce plutonium pellets in the particle accelerator, which are then converted into plutonium cells. These are used to produce plutonium fuel rods, which you can also use to power a nuclear power plant.

Electricity storage and smart grids

What should not happen under any circumstances: standstill. That's why it's particularly important that you use electricity storage systems and, above all, smart grids. The larger and more complex your factory becomes, the more you should think about the distribution of individual power grids. Set up different departments and areas of your factory and supply them with separate power grids - you can use power switches, for example. This ensures that not all areas come to a standstill should you ever run out of power.

You should always have enough energy in stock to be able to expand your production in a relaxed manner, which is where energy storage comes into play. If you produce too much energy, you can store it with the power storage units and then release it when it is needed. Each storage unit can store a maximum of 100 MW for one hour and releases the energy as soon as it is needed - this is particularly useful when a power outage is imminent. You can connect several energy storage units in series if you want to store the maximum amount of energy. You can see the current status of your power storage unit from the following colors:

• Blue: While the power storage unit lights up blue, it is charging
• Orange: You can see from the orange light and the movement of the upper part of the power storage unit that it is currently discharging
• Gray: Inactive. Either the power storage unit is full or there is no energy that can be charged or released

Use overclocking or underclocking

You can activate these two processes on the MAM (Molecular Analysis Machine) to slow down or speed up production. If you want to underclock machines, you do not need any additional resources. However, if you want to overclock, you will need to use power shards - these can be produced from the power slugs on a workbench. Each power shard used can increase the production of a machine by up to 50%. However, make sure that there is enough fuel or electricity available, as overclocking naturally results in much higher consumption than normal.

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