Description
High-Density Grid Storage buffers industrial power so mines and refineries can survive demand spikes without shutting down. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials.
Benefits
Fuel output Empire-wide+2%
Fuel Tender Unlocks
+20 power-hours and +10/hour transfer per Power Plant; maximum 400/world with basic storage Local grid capability
Strategy notes
High-Density Grid Storage develops the Energy discipline within Resource Ascendancy. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Its immediate value is +2% fuel output. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
Player hints
This is an inexpensive path entry. Research it early when you want to test this direction without sacrificing strategic flexibility. Favor this technology when its Energy benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects. Complete every prerequisite before adding research progress. Generation is finite, local, staffed, and funded; this research does not transmit power between worlds. Adds 20 reserve power-hours and 10 charge/discharge power per active Power Plant: 40 capacity per plant, maximum 400 per world with basic storage.
Research cost
1.5KRP
675Credits
300Common
225Rare
168Strategic
450Fuel