GridController

Keep the lights on

GridController is an online tycoon about running a power company. It starts in a garage with an exercise bike, a car battery and a street full of dark houses. Pedal, store what you make, sell it to the neighbors, and build from there.

From one street to a whole region

Every era opens a bigger job.

• Garage Tinkerer. An exercise bike, a car battery and a street full of dark houses.
  
• Homestead Solar. The sun works for free. Time to put it to work.
  
• Independent Producer. Your first land. Your first power plant.
  
• Hometown Utility. Wires, poles and customers who call when the lights go out.
  
• Regional Utility. Three towns, one 69 kV network, a seat at the market.
  
• Power Authority. Coal, gas, water and atoms. The whole valley runs on your plants.
  
• Interregional Power. A second region, a long line home and wind that blows all night.
  
• National Grid Operator. Five regions, one grid to keep at 60 Hz.
  
• Market Operator. Every megawatt has a price, every hour.

Build it, wire it, run it

• Build solar fields, wind farms, gas and coal plants, dams and nuclear reactors, every site in 3D.
  
• Connect each site through its own switchyard to a 69 kV network you lay out line by line. Lines load up, storms knock things down, and the evening peak always comes.
  
• Hire builders and crews and send them out. Nothing is built, upgraded or repaired without people to do it.
  
• Research a deep tree of upgrades, from better panels to bigger reactors.
  
• Sign contracts, sell into the market when prices spike, and keep enough in reserve for the hours that matter.
  
• Run nuclear on its own economy: inspected fuel in, waste out, and a market for both.

A world that keeps moving

• Weather crosses the map and your output follows it. A game day passes in an hour, from a quiet night to the evening rush.
  
• Your company keeps running while you are away. Check in, make the calls, and see what happened.
  
• Join a Power Pool with other operators to share power and build community projects together.
  
• Seasons bring new goals, rewards and the occasional surprise. Nature has a temper.

A console for people who like systems

A dark control-room console shows what the grid is doing: loads, line flows, prices and work orders. Read it at a glance, or dig into every number.