Coal Generator

The Coal Generator is a building that generates power using coal. It is the first fully automatable power source the player has access to and also the first power source to use a mined resource.

Fuel Energy Values
Energy is given in MJ. 1MJ provides 1 MW of power for 1 second or 50 MW of power (1 Coal Generator at 100% load) for 0.02 seconds.

Generators Per Node
A single node can support the following number of coal generators operating a peak capacity (decimal values are truncated as they could cause a power trip): Limited by Mk.4 belt speed. The equation is as follows:

$$CoalMined per min\times Fuel burn time \over 60sec$$

For a coal generator that is not overclocked, Fuel burn time is 5.4 seconds (displayed next to the stopwatch in the coal generator UI).

Trivia

 * The Coal Generator, like all power generating buildings, behaves differently to other buildings when overclocked. See Clock Speed for more info.

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