Day 1 · 06:00 ☀

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🏭 YOUR POWER SOURCES

Grouped by type · click a type to expand its plants · ✕ to demolish for a partial refund

⚙ Settings

Speed

🎵 Music & sound

volume

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music: Open Lo-Fi · CC0

⏸ Planning: take your time. Build, inspect, then Space to resume. auto-pause on blackout

WASD/edge pan · scroll zoom · Q/E rotate · 1-5 or click guide to pick · click map to build · Esc/right-click deselect · X demolish mode · B guide · C recenter · Space pause

skip tutorial

⏩ the morning passes…

🔧 BUILD GUIDE×

Press 1–5 or click a source to build.

🔍 Inspect mode I

🧨 Demolish X

B to toggle

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Grid Town · v0.8

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SPEED

🌙 TONIGHT

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steady 0 MWpeak 0 MW

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📅 TODAY today + tonight · to dawn

💰 MONEY net · $/s

≈ $0/day

in $0 · out $0

🎯 NEXT GOAL

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⚡ GRID

supply / demand0 / 0 MW

served100%

town trust100%

capacity · spare0 · 0 MW

peak / now / min0 / 0 / 0

lit / wired / total0 / 0 / 0

net income+0 /day

grid upkeep−$0/s

wires −$0plants −$0fuel −$0

now ☀ 0 🔋 0 🔥 0

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⚡ Production vs Demand

💰 Cash Flowlast 60s · $/s

revenue (tax) costs (upkeep + fuel) margin

🎯 GOALS

more yellow = better solar site

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City of Grid Town · How to Play

A cel-shaded town of houses beside a winding river

Welcome to Grid Town! Beta

Hi there! Welcome to Grid Town, a new town with new residents moving in every day. Your job is to build the town's energy grid and keep the lights on as the town grows, doing your best to use sustainable energy sources to reduce pollution. Good luck!

Developed by Trevor Hinkle

Placing a solar source near homes; green lines show the houses it reaches

🔨 Build & Read the Grid

To build: pick a source by pressing its number key or clicking it in the build guide on the right, then click open ground near homes. The green lines show which homes it reaches. Press Esc or right-click to return to inspecting. Space pauses the clock; building does not.

To read it: the bottom strip is your control room. In 📅 TODAY, keep the colored mountain (the power you are making) above the white line (what the town needs). A red gap means homes go dark, especially at the 19:00 dinner rush. 💰 MONEY shows your net income per second; when it turns red, costs are outrunning income.

Demand keeps rising as the town grows. A grid that is enough today will not be enough next week.

A clean town at night, every home's windows glowing, fully powered

🏆 How to Win & Lose

How to win: reach a ⭐ Sustainable City by running the town entirely on clean power. Hold all of the following for 90 seconds:

50 homes powered
no homes going dark: the grid keeps up all night
no gas burning: sun, wind, nuclear, and batteries only
enough always-on backup for the peak: nuclear, batteries, or a gas reserve for a windless night

How to lose: if pollution reaches the cap, the game ends. Gas is cheap and runs at any hour, but it pollutes, so do not lean on it too hard. The game also ends if your balance stays negative. Every plant costs upkeep for as long as it stands, so an overbuilt grid drains cash even when idle.

Ready to begin

First time? Play one guided evening on a real grid; you keep the town after. Or skip straight to the menu.

Full Game sandbox

A free-build sandbox with no timer and no set goal. Grow your town and reach a fully clean, fully powered city at your own pace.

Pick a map to begin ▶

⭐ Sustainable City!

You're powering a whole town on clean energy: no gas, no brownouts. That's the win. 🎉

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🔬 Grid Upgrades incoming

Your researchers are hard at work. Starting tomorrow, they'll bring you a set of Grid Upgrades at each dawn: new innovations that make running the grid easier. You can adopt one each day, so pick the one that helps you most.

⚫ Coal runs first — and keeps running

Your coal plants are must-run baseload: they're the first source dispatched every hour, and they keep burning until you demolish them. A new plant you build only powers the grid once coal isn't already covering the load — so to actually put your clean sources to work (and slow the smog), you'll often need to retire some coal.

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⚡ Run the Energy Transition

You're this town's grid operator, and the whole energy transition is on you: Coal Age to clean grid, one dawn at a time.

Day 1: coal only. Cheap and always-on, but it smokes even at 3 a.m.: it can't throttle below its must-run floor, and every extra plant piles on more smoke.
The smog meter is a countdown. Let it hit the cap and the air board shuts you down. Retiring coal is the one big lever that slows it.
Each dawn, adopt one new technology. Hydro, gas, geothermal, wind, solar, battery, nuclear. The draft grows what you can build, one pick at a time.
Terrain gatekeeps. Hydro only builds on river banks; geothermal only on steaming vents. Select one and the map lights up where you're allowed.
Win: a Sustainable City with clear skies. Grow and fully serve the town on clean power with no fossils burning, then clear the accumulated smog until the sky is nearly clean, and hold it.

⚡ Grid paused: blackout

Homes across town just went dark, so the sim paused to give you a beat. Take a moment to make a plan, then start again when you're ready.

🗞 Today's Challenge

Leave this run?

Heading back to the menu abandons your current town — there's no undo.

This dawn edition looks back on the day & night just past.❦Est. Day 1 · Vol. I · One Clean Megawatt

The

Grid Town

Gazette

Grid · Power · Town News

Day 1 · est. Day 1❦Dawn Edition

A quiet day on the grid

By the Grid Desk

don't pause at day's end