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A few things....

1) we aren't able to see the whole power grid, so it's possible -- or even likely -- that we're missing something, or several things.  Hard to say.

2) while you could easily chalk this up to a bug, powered Mech Doors do not actually need power -- they run just fine without it, so you are bleeding power every time they open, which is wasteful

3) I only see 1 section of your grid that is unpowered, the upper Berry Farm room, but it looks like you have some manner of switch controlling it, in the top left immediately next to the Airflow Tile wall, so you have something turning it off there

4) if you are referring to the many wire sections that are in yellow, it is likely a result of how the game processes information regarding Transformers -- anything on the low end will always show as "strained", it's just how they work

5) as Neotuck pointed out, the only actual source of power we can see in this image is the single Hydrogen Generator, which has nowhere near the power output to keep up with the number of machines that are visible in this image, not even looking at the needlessly powered Doors or the Pharma Pods

So yeah...  need more screenshots to diagnose any potential problems.

I did spot one thing, on the bottom left under the cancel icon, you have a normal wire crossing the heavy wire without using a wire bridge. In my experience this will transfer power from the heavy watt to the normal wire. If so it's possible you have machines draining all your power from the normal wire circuit.

One way to check what buildings are hooked up to a circuit, and what the overall power demand the circuit has, is to click on a wire and go to the Energy tab. Maybe you can troubleshoot that way. You can also see what power generators are actually making power, which could be the problem.

35 minutes ago, Jigsawn said:

I did spot one thing, on the bottom left under the cancel icon, you have a normal wire crossing the heavy wire without using a wire bridge. In my experience this will transfer power from the heavy watt to the normal wire. If so it's possible you have machines draining all your power from the normal wire circuit.

One way to check what buildings are hooked up to a circuit, and what the overall power demand the circuit has, is to click on a wire and go to the Energy tab. Maybe you can troubleshoot that way. You can also see what power generators are actually making power, which could be the problem.

It's crossing through a joint plate. Last I recall, they can do that without consequence

9 hours ago, TheExceed said:

It's crossing through a joint plate. Last I recall, they can do that without consequence

That is the intention, yes.  But when Heavy-Watt Joint Plates were first added to the game, they were broken.  If you tried to run regular Wire through them without a Wire Bridge, they would join the circuits.  I do not recall if that bug has been fixed or not.

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