Oh! I think I understand now the more green light bulbs on the more power you have the more yellow light bulbs on the more power is used, but is the yellow light equal in power consumption as the green light is to power production?  This is still confusing to me.

P.S. I like Pyrit's idea or we could have an energy bar that showed the total power production and consumption in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Perhaps simplistic: A meter at each "flag pole"* just showing the total power consumption / total (available) power. If a producer drops out, the meter goes down, if a consumer is constructed, the meter goes down.

* We should change the terminology at that opportunity: The flag is primarily used for power distribution (no base melees yet), so it can be named like this also if the graphics are changed to resemble a power-junction with meter.

As the flag radius is only important when constructing, we should also drop these flying triangles marking the players area. Instead, the player should be warned if he attempts to build something out of the flag radius (and/or different color).


Left red, right green, middle area yellow. If the meter goes into the red area, it means there is power shortage somewhere.
On the extreme left: no producer at all
On the extreme right: producers = 3*consumers
at green/yellow: producers = 2*consumers
at yellow/red: producers = consumers