power requirements suddenly went insanely high

[kurtman7]

Hello i am new to factorio and recently when i was playing i checked my power usage only to find that I was using 300 mw there was nothing that should be using that much power please help.

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[boskid]

I would not worry about power usage saying 328MW in that image: that is a common behavior when energy buffers in the entities are not full because the max value is just a "max possible consumption that would satisfy all charging requirements this tick". Please take a look at the production saying 1.8MW when you have 70 steam engines.

[kurtman7]

thanks

[astroshak]

That looks like your coal ran out, honestly. 1.8 MW is one boiler feeding two Steam Engines. Either you have only the one boiler and did not notice the information about how much water the boiler drinks and how much steam it makes, and how much steam a steam engine drinks, OR you have more boilers that lack either water or fuel.