Power Grid Panel

Overview

The Power Grid panel displays real-time data from every power circuit in your factory. It uses the FRM getPower endpoint, polled every 15 seconds, and stored as a time-series for historical charts.

This panel requires the FRM mod. See Installing FRM.

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Panel Fields

Each power circuit appears as a row. The data fields correspond directly to the PowerMetric model:

Field	Unit	Description
circuit_group_id	—	Circuit identifier (circuits are numbered automatically)
power_production	MW	Current power being produced by all generators on this circuit
power_consumed	MW	Current power being consumed by all machines on this circuit
power_capacity	MW	Total generator capacity (maximum possible production)
power_max_consumed	MW	Theoretical maximum consumption if all machines ran at 100%
battery_percent	%	Current battery charge level (0–100%)
battery_capacity	MWh	Total battery storage capacity
battery_differential	MW	Rate of charge/discharge (positive = charging, negative = discharging)
fuse_triggered	bool	Whether the circuit fuse has blown

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Understanding Power Balance

The most important metric is the relationship between production and consumption:

Healthy circuit:

power_production = 150 MW
power_consumed   = 120 MW  ← below production
battery_percent  = 100%    ← fully charged
fuse_triggered   = false

Overloaded circuit (fuse about to blow):

power_production = 150 MW
power_consumed   = 162 MW  ← exceeds production
battery_differential = -12 MW  ← batteries draining
battery_percent  = 45%     ← batteries not full
fuse_triggered   = false   ← but will blow soon

Blown fuse:

fuse_triggered   = true    ← ALL machines on this circuit are offline

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Fuse Alerts

Fuse triggered — critical alert. When fuse_triggered is true, all machines on that circuit have stopped. Production on the entire circuit is zero until you repair the fuse in-game (via the Power Switch or the circuit breaker).

A fuse blows when consumption exceeds production for long enough to drain the batteries completely. FICSIT.monitor displays a prominent alert when any circuit’s fuse is blown.

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Battery Status

Satisfactory uses battery storage (Power Storage machines) to buffer power consumption spikes. The battery fields help diagnose power grid health:

battery_differential	battery_percent	Situation
Positive	< 100%	Batteries charging — good, production exceeds consumption
Zero	100%	Batteries full, power balanced
Negative	Falling	Consumption exceeds production — risk of fuse blow
Negative	0%	Fuse is about to blow or has already blown

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Multiple Circuits

Large factories often have multiple power circuits (separated by Power Switches). Each circuit appears as a separate row in the Power Grid panel, identified by its circuit_group_id.

If circuit_group_id is 1 for all your machines, you have a single circuit. Most early/mid-game factories are single-circuit.

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Historical Charts

Power metrics are stored as a time-series (TimescaleDB hypertable). The panel shows a time-series chart of power production, consumption, and battery differential over your retention period.

This helps identify:

• When power issues started
• How power demand has grown as you’ve expanded
• Whether periodic spikes correlate with specific factory events

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API Reference

The raw data powering this panel is available via the API:

curl https://satisfactory-dashboard.pablohgdev.com/api/v1/servers/{SERVER_ID}/power/latest \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Response fields match the table above. See Metrics API Reference for full documentation.