Vanilla electric poles solve themselves in five minutes. This mod adds a staged pole, substation, and transmission progression — with optional Power Overload integration — so your grid becomes a real part of factory planning.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026.08.24
Compatibility:
- Made Space Age an optional dependency, so the mod now loads on base Factorio 2.1.
Changes:
- Restricted the big electric pole MK4 and substation MK4 tiers to Space Age, since their recipes need superconductor and quantum processor.
- Restricted the huge electric pole MK3 and MK4 tiers to Space Age, since their recipes need superconductor, foundation, and quantum processor.
- Kept every other tier, including medium electric pole MK4, available without Space Age.
- Gated research that required electromagnetic or cryogenic science on space science instead when Space Age is absent.
- Stopped registering the Space Age pole tiers with Power Overload when Space Age is absent.
- Split the single pole row in the crafting menu into a local distribution row holding small poles, medium poles and substations, and a distance transmission row holding big poles and huge poles. Every tier of a family now sits in one row in tier order, starting from its vanilla tier.
- Moved both pole rows to sit directly after the pipe row in the Logistics tab. The single row they replace sat above belts and inserters.
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026.07.25
Changes:
- Added Power Overload 2.2.0 registry integration for Advanced Energy Grid pole overload limits and tooltips.
- Raised the optional Power Overload dependency to version 2.2.0 or newer.
- Documented the default overload limits for Advanced Energy Grid pole tiers.
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026.07.09
Changes:
- Changed the packaged mod license from MIT to GNU GPLv3.
- Updated repository and source documentation to reference GNU GPLv3.
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026.07.09
Changes:
- Marked the mod compatible with Factorio 2.1 and Space Age 2.1.
- Updated base and Space Age dependency bounds for Factorio 2.1.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026.07.08
Changes:
- Initialized Advanced Energy Grid as the electric-grid split from Advanced Power Infrastructure.
- Added upgraded small, medium, and big electric pole tiers with aeg_ prototype IDs.
- Added upgraded substation tiers and local distribution technology branches.
- Added distance transmission technology branches.
- Added optional Power Overload huge electric pole MK2-MK4 integration.