Powerplant

The Powerplant is one of the Buildings in Tropico 3 used to generate electricity for your island. When a powerplant is constructed, a radius about the size of 4 powerplants becomes electrified. If a building requires electricity to be built, or an upgrade for a non-electrified building requires it, it must be inside this radius. You can see this radius by clicking on the powerplant and clicking on the "Overall" tab or using the electricity overlay under "services". This radius can be increased using Electric Substations. The amount of power a powerplant generates is based on the number and skill level of the workers.

Stats

 * Cost: $17,000
 * Base Electrical Requirements: N/A
 * Jobs Created: 8 College females
 * Input: N/A
 * Output: Electricity
 * Building Modifiers: 2
 * Coal: Default setting, high pollution
 * Natural Gas: +100% Upkeep Cost, -50% pollution
 * Upgrades: 0

Electric Substation
As said previously, if a building or a building upgrade require electricity, the building must be inside the electrified area. If the building you wish to upgrade or build is outside of this radius, you can use Electric Substations to extend this radius. Electric Substations can be "daisy-chained" together to extend the radius. For example, if you build one substation and the extended radius is still not big enough to reach your desired building location, you can build another substation inside the electrified area that the previous substation created and extend the radius further. Keep in mind that, in a daisy-chain configuration, having one substation destroyed can cause power to be loss all the way down the line. Each Electric Substation will cost you $2,000 but requires no Tropicans to operate.

Hints & Tips

 * Hiring foreign experts with a College education can be very expensive. If you need a powerplant, you should have a College first.
 * Use Electric Substations to increase the power grid's size if you need to build outside of the current grid.
 * Powerplants create a lot of pollution, so they should be built away from Tourist areas.
 * Powerplants have garages built in. Considering the pollution they create, it's recommended they are built far from housing and tourism and electric substations be used to route power through the island.