Thanks for all the advice! it's all very helpful and gives me a direction to go on.
Time to see if I can make it work

Electric grid is a hard-coded behavior. You can have any number of actual grids on the map, where each grid is a group of electric poles that don't connect to poles in any other grid.

Electric pole wiring can be changed by scripts, so in theory you could have your mod's scripts make sure that the ...

is the electrical grid programmed into the base game?
I'm trying to create a secondary grid that works exactly like the power grid but runs off a different resource, a plasma grid.
The issue I'm running into is there doesn't appear to be a way to create such a thing.

Is it impossible? or would I ...