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Title: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on October 08, 2010, 08:48:25 AM
So how do you transfer your power in your regions
im pretty serious about how im going to distribute my power and i want it to look as realistic as possible
as many of you people know i bat powerlines for the game.
but today i just played arround with what many people created for the power for my region

at the moment i only use  the plopable lines because i don't like the maxis ones.
for my rural areas im batting smaller poles but those are still in development

so do you build a really advanced powergrid? or are you  using the maxis pylons only? let us see what you got!
im pretty curious what you people do with your power distributions!  ;D

here's my starting picture its my first substation i constructed:
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its consists out of 3  regional powerlines and 2 local lines
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: rooker1 on October 08, 2010, 09:06:12 AM
I'm looking for something like that!  ::) ;)

Robin  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on October 20, 2010, 07:11:23 PM
another sample:
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as you can see this is my powersupply for the whole region $%Grinno$%
(but it was more a testing ground for my new stuff)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: metarvo on October 21, 2010, 07:45:39 AM
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg230.imageshack.us%2Fimg230%2F1658%2Fpwrgrid00.jpg&hash=65019005e2c60a7dbdd4cd84fe24902353ab9012)

I guess the substation just to the west of this coal power plant counts as a substation nonetheless, right?  This power plant is actually in one of the quads near the region's edge.  There are four 345 kV lines branching out to serve every corner of the region, which is unfortunately nowhere near finished yet.

Quote from: Buzzit on October 08, 2010, 08:48:25 AM
its consists out of 3  regional powerlines and 2 local lines

Good work!  The variety and placement of the various power items, along with an access road for the utility trucks, make this quite realistic.  :thumbsup:  Your Power menu must be about as crowded as mine.  ::)  That reminds me of this huge substation that I've seen a few times.  It had about 6 or so of those huge lines.  Ironically, there was an upscale neighborhood that bordered the powerlines, which probably made for an interesting backyard view.  I'll have to Google Earth or Google Maps it to refresh my memory.  ;)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on October 22, 2010, 03:32:12 PM
looks great Metarvo! and jup that counts aswell everything that has to do with powerlines is welcome here ()stsfd()
i think we are one of the fewer members here who are into a complex powergrid if i see how quiet it is over here  &mmm

sounds cool btw!
tobad germany doesn't have street view enabled(yet) because they have some of the largest substations i ever seen in my life
and they have one of the highest tower types in europe (as far as i know they are 60 meters high!).
if you ever find the coordinates of that place you told in your last post  would you mind posting them? im wonder how it looks!

Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Girafe on October 22, 2010, 03:49:50 PM
looks good metarvo but what are these flora mods, seems to be grilled by electricity  :D :D
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: MITSOS on March 23, 2011, 04:30:59 AM
This is the largest nuclear power plant in Dimland and probably in the simworld. its power is 9200 MW.
it has 8 reactors.


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Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: aragornjdl on March 23, 2011, 06:49:29 AM
Wow what a great thread to discover!

Buzzit, that power plant is a wonderful bit of messy realism.  :o I've never seen the concrete dome structure before. Are those they stereotypical cooling towers in the top left?

MITSOS, your plant looks very realistic!  &apls but eerily so. At first glance I wondered if you were trying to recreate the Japanese Fukushima plant that has been in the news and on our minds lately. Are the BATs used for that available anywhere?

I'm planning the power grid and plants for my region right now but my efforts are quite amateurish compared to these... hopefully I can get some good ideas.
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: MITSOS on March 23, 2011, 07:42:21 AM
thank you aragornjdl.  no i didn't want to recreate fukoshima plant.i made this long time ago. but i have to admit that i base my creation on japanese nuclear plants because they are better looking.i released that picture because of what happened there.i hope that everything will be ok for all mankind. Dimland is a mixture of different styles. you can see that if you check out my cj.   

Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on March 26, 2011, 05:42:22 AM
looks awesome mitsos  :thumbsup:
where did you get that nuclear powerplant?
batted your self?
it all looks really good!



Quote from: aragornjdl on March 23, 2011, 06:49:29 AM
Wow what a great thread to discover!

Buzzit, that power plant is a wonderful bit of messy realism.  :o I've never seen the concrete dome structure before. Are those they stereotypical cooling towers in the top left?

I'm planning the power grid and plants for my region right now but my efforts are quite amateurish compared to these... hopefully I can get some good ideas.

those pieces are from a soviet area nuclear powerplant
but he also released them as seperate pieces
so i made them plopable to make a plopable powerplant. but this didnt worked out the way i wanted so i scrapped the plan for now (until i bat some myself)

if you want some good ideas for substations and powergrids just check out google earth.. just follow some powerline roads and see how it gets distributed.
or check out some powergridmaps on google.

if i released an fair amount of powerline packs i will try to make a tutorial for realistic power distribution.  :)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: metarvo on March 26, 2011, 06:04:59 AM
Wow, Mitsos!  That is quite a power plant you have there.  It almost looks like a small city or neighborhood in and of itself.  Everything appears to have been carefully placed, and it looks great.  The Maxis power plants look really small when they are compared to the real ones, which are usually much larger.

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: louistsw on March 26, 2011, 08:27:24 AM
When I see the square, it just like Fukushima..
Hope that can be safe. :(

Will someone BAT it?
....

Well, I think my citizen will complain this. &mmm
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Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on March 26, 2011, 09:47:07 AM
i hope that in the future more people will use plopable powerlines :) it seems very few people are using them sofar
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: louistsw on March 26, 2011, 10:12:05 AM
Quote from: Buzzit on March 26, 2011, 09:47:07 AM
i hope that in the future more people will use plopable powerlines :) it seems very few people are using them sofar
...Coincidently, plopable power lines are not available when I build the newest city.. :(
Also, my Mountainous map is a problem for using with ploplines.
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Kitsune on March 26, 2011, 10:19:10 AM
Quote from: MITSOS on March 23, 2011, 07:42:21 AM
thank you aragornjdl.  no i didn't want to recreate fukoshima plant.i made this long time ago. but i have to admit that i base my creation on japanese nuclear plants because they are better looking.i released that picture because of what happened there.i hope that everything will be ok for all mankind. Dimland is a mixture of different styles. you can see that if you check out my cj.   



Mitsos ... where did you manage to find those reactor buildings? Or did you create them yourself?
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on March 26, 2011, 11:13:34 AM
Quote from: louistsw on March 26, 2011, 10:12:05 AM
...Coincidently, plopable power lines are not available when I build the newest city.. :(
Also, my Mountainous map is a problem for using with ploplines.
thats something im looking into at the moment
wireless plopable is an option  it may look less realistic without wires but it still gives a nice touch in realism when we would look to distribution  :)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: mikeski on March 27, 2011, 06:29:15 PM
Nice powergrids everyone.  Nothing special in my towns though, I still use the Maxis candy poles to distribute power in my region.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhostthenpost.com%2Fuploads%2Fc1e8f64d2afec974d4f38fe7e34daadb.jpg&hash=e36b5da9b45fe408c8ffd9456577af95f200d5ea)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: jdenm8 on March 27, 2011, 07:38:48 PM
Wow, I never knew about this thread before. I don't use ploppable power lines myself, they don't like slopes of any kind and have the nasty tendency to not transmit power, but I do put a little work into making my Maxis powerline system remotely realistic.

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.majhost.com%2Fgallery%2Fjdenm8%2FRandomScreenies%2Fjamisonville-13_apr.__3381283314839_comp.png&hash=d6a00b5917f97a68cbef2bd8c185bc8604279687)
Just some powerlines going over a Trumpet intersection that had its loop built wider specifically for the power lines (Cheaper to make the loop wider than to move the power lines).

That's all I've got so far, so I might take some more pictures at a later date.
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: RickD on March 28, 2011, 02:13:01 AM
Quote from: Buzzit on March 26, 2011, 09:47:07 AM
i hope that in the future more people will use plopable powerlines :) it seems very few people are using them sofar

I'd love to. But my region isn't flat. If the pylons didn't have the wires on them they would be more usable.  &Thk/(
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on March 29, 2011, 02:01:20 PM
i'm currently figuring out how to make them look nice on slopes without wires
would you guys use them even if they wouldnt have wires?


@jdenm8
well i use a diffrent methode for that matter ;)
you see the endings/substations are acting like powerplants so they accually carry in some way the power hehe.

anyways
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg860.imageshack.us%2Fimg860%2F3884%2Fmiddelandsevlaktessubst.jpg&hash=6d6a6ff19d49271d7b3188d16fc355a84d02df23)
here's a small substation wich is the first separation point for some smaller lines wich end at smaller regions or small cities and to further connect a regional line. its also a starting point for a chain of smaller medium voltage lines wich gives power to most of the farms and small villages in the regionblock

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg708.imageshack.us%2Fimg708%2F5686%2Fmiddelandsevlaktessubstu.jpg&hash=c9a7a267b706ef83ce32894ba3124edcf074c298)
this is a substation where most of the regional lines cross.
there's also a line wich goes to a smaller city a block away.

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg13.imageshack.us%2Fimg13%2F8316%2F12354325.jpg&hash=8a16154154c41a0539f0fd80ca5beca98c9999a8)
the Southerneast powerstation wich supplies diffrent voltages
2 400Kv lines
1 380Kv line
1 220Kv line
and 1 110Kv line wich functions as  eyecandy only

unfortunately the substations aren't looking as realistic as i want
thats why i will model my own substations in the future  :)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: metarvo on March 29, 2011, 05:31:59 PM
On the ploppable vs. draggable front, I can see the merits of both types of power lines.  I am finally trying to work on making a draggable version of my power line set, but I realize right away that the draggable Maxis power line set is not all that controllable.  There can only be one draggable power line set in use at a time, and only four poles (orthogonal, diagonal, orthogonal intersection, and diagonal intersection) can be used in that set.  Not only that, but the intersection poles always default to the north rotation after a zoom or rotation of the camera even if they were originally dragged out in another rotation.  This means the draggable corner pylons will have to be symmetrical.

Not bad at all, Buzzit.  The power lines connect to the substations quite nicely, despite the fact that some of them were not designed for each other, and the substation lots complement each other.  Of course, I like the power plant BAT as well, as you can see by looking at my picture earlier in this thread.  It looks as though you, Jdenm8, and Mikeski all remembered to keep tall trees out of the power line ROW areas.  Maybe there won't be many fires or power outages near the power lines now.
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: RickD on March 30, 2011, 02:36:56 AM
Ploppable pylons (maybe even mayor mode ploppable?) without wires batted on them would be great to have. I would use them.
If the wires where modelled to scale, they wouldn't be visible in SC4 anyway (except maybe in zoom 5).
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Allein on May 08, 2011, 05:37:33 AM
An old nuclear powerplant  :'(

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Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Buzzit on April 15, 2012, 07:53:27 AM
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here's just a small shot wich i made for testing my new pylons.
the concrete texture seems to be over now as these pylons didn't had the same issue  :)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: MandelSoft on April 15, 2012, 07:57:18 AM
Glad to see some more awesome pylons from you, Buzzit! Keep up the good work! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: Catalyst on September 18, 2014, 02:22:59 AM
Construction of a new power grid to power the south-eastern US cities with clean wind power.

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fx65UVJE.jpg&hash=67e3a939ed8f6542123883966755591f6bfdbfce) (http://i.imgur.com/x65UVJE.jpg)
Title: Re: show us your powergrids and substations!
Post by: packersfan on October 08, 2014, 08:01:25 PM
I like the ploppable powerlines as I they can travel over zoned areas like farms, but I don't like that they are not slope-friendly.  Now I'm toying with using modded Maxis real powerlines and keeping the area beneath them cleared out like in real life (though in the countryside, lines with cross farmland...sigh).