Economics

Energy Credits

EC is earned from grid sales only. Lab kWh does not pay EC.

EC purchases: generators, charge controllers, battery upgrades, inverter upgrades, maintenance, and resets.

Revenue (EC) = Grid_kWh × Sell_Rate × TOU_Multiplier × Reset_Multiplier

The sell rate sets how fast reinvestment compounds: equipment costs are derived from payback-time targets that stretch from a couple of minutes at tier 1 to the better part of an hour at tier 5.

See Time-of-Use for the sell multiplier and Prestige for Reset_Multiplier (hard-caps at 1024).

Base load

• Starting base load = half of passive shake-flashlight output; each new Human Power tier doubles it.
• Active parallel research adds a percentage per active project beyond the first. Parallel research level does not affect this — only the count of currently active research toggles.

Base load consumes first from inverter output before grid and lab split. See Energy routing.