Deuterium Power Plant
Build a Deuterium Power Plant when your mines need dependable live-grid power and you can afford to burn Deuterium. Unlike an Energy Cell Factory, this building supplies Energy, not Fuel Cells.
Requirements and operation
- Deuterium Synthesizer level 5 and Deuterium Power Technology level 1 unlock construction.
- Each level's full-output grid power is
22 × level × 1.04^level, before Fusion's global power bonus and Deuterium Power Technology's specific bonus. - Full-output fuel demand is
16 × level × 1.12^levelDeuterium per hour, reduced by Deuterium Efficiency and multiplied by galaxy economy speed. - The Resource Settings slider changes both fuel demand and power from 0% to 100% in 10% steps. At 0%, no fuel is burned and no power is produced.
Fuel is deducted from the selected station's Deuterium under its resource lock. The Energy Cell Factory takes fuel first; the Power Plant uses only what remains. With no fuel, the plant cannot supply grid power. During an interval with too little fuel, it can run only for the fueled fraction; check your grid and mine production after depletion. Build Deuterium production or reduce the slider when reserve fuel matters for fleets.
Cost
Level 1 costs 900 Metal, 360 Crystal and 180 Deuterium; subsequent levels multiply each base material cost by 1.8^(level − 1), before applicable discounts. Construction Credits appear in the in-game quote.