Pokémon Pokopia: How to Generate Electricity and Power Objects

As you'll soon discover, Pokémon Pokopia features a huge number of objects that run on electricity. If you want to create a world worthy of humans, you'll certainly want to learn how to connect electrical devices and maintain a steady supply of power. That's why we've prepared this entry of our guide to explain which mechanics and tools you need to generate light, power electrical circuits, and much more...

How to generate electricity

There are two main ways to generate electricity in Pokémon Pokopia. The simplest and most direct method is to bring along a Pokémon with the Generate specialty. When these Electric-type Pokémon accompany you, they can temporarily power objects that require electricity to function.

However, if you want a fully operational power grid that runs continuously without relying on Electric-type Pokémon, you'll need to build objects that serve as power sources. In other words, objects capable of producing electricity on their own: generators.

Types of generators that produce electricity

Pokémon Pokopia features several generators that serve as the main objects for producing electricity. Broadly speaking, there are three:

• Windmill: a wind-powered generator that continuously produces electricity. It generates power more efficiently when placed at a high altitude.
• Waterwheel: a water-powered generator that must be placed in water, where it uses the current to produce a continuous supply of electricity.
• Furnace: a heat-powered generator that burns flammable objects placed inside it to produce electricity.

You can find all these generators throughout the game's different areas, but you can also purchase their kits from PC Shops and build them wherever you like, in whatever quantities you need, with the help of Pokémon—just as when you build houses and other structures. They are available in unlimited quantities and cost 300 Life Coins each.

You'll unlock these generators for purchase as you progress through the game. In fact, once you reach Bleak Beach, the Important Request "Brighten Things Up" largely serves as an introductory tutorial explaining generators and the game's electricity mechanics.

You can also befriend Porygon by creating the Researcher's Desk habitat on the Isolated Islands and then accepting one of its requests. Doing so allows you to obtain and unlock the crafting recipe for the Mini generator, a portable generator that you can place wherever it's most convenient. It generates electricity entirely on its own, without needing to be connected to any other generator.

Finally, Pokopia also features a device called the Charging Station. This object can recharge power—or, more accurately, store it. If you connect it to enough generators, it will accumulate units of electricity that Peakychu can use to activate its Illuminate specialty. This lights up the surrounding area and, when used at night, makes Pokémon more active.

How to connect generators to objects that require power

We've already covered the devices you need to produce electricity in your Pokopia world, but you also need to know how to connect these generators to objects that require power, such as lamps, computers, spotlights, cash registers, vending machines, and more.

This is mainly done using one particular object: Utility Poles.

• Utility Poles are objects that transmit electricity when connected to one another and to a power source.
• For example, suppose you have a working Waterwheel.
• First, create and place a Utility Pole beside the generator. A cable will appear between the Waterwheel and the pole.
• You then need to place additional Utility Poles to form a chain, extending the cable toward the objects that require electricity.
• When a Utility Pole is close enough to an object that needs power, you'll see yellow connection lines, indicating that placing the pole in that position will supply electricity to the object.
• Bear in mind that all the Utility Pole cables must connect to one another for the power to be transmitted correctly, and there cannot be any objects in the way blocking the connection.

You can easily unlock the Utility Pole crafting recipe in Bleak Beach by collecting a yellow Poké Ball on the platform containing an inactive Furnace, not far from the area's Pokémon Center.

Once you've registered Porygon in the Pokédex, you can also craft Wireless power transmitters. These work similarly to Utility Poles, but they transmit electricity over greater distances, and the power can pass through objects and walls.

Electricity restrictions and limitations

Every generator in Pokopia supplies a certain number of units of electricity to the area, while each powered object consumes some of those units. Almost every object that requires electricity uses 1 unit, although a few exceptions, such as Surface Lights, do not actually consume any units despite needing a generator.

These are the number of electricity units supplied by each type of generator:

• Windmill: supplies 10 units of electricity under normal conditions or 20 when placed at a high altitude.
• Waterwheel: supplies 20 units of electricity.
• Furnace: supplies 30 units of electricity while operating.
• Mini generator: supplies 5 units of electricity.

With this in mind, you cannot keep more powered objects running simultaneously than your circuit's generators can support. You'll need to make sure you're generating enough electricity at all times.

For example, if you have 21 electrical objects connected to a single Waterwheel, that generator will not be able to power all 21 of them because it only supplies 20 units. You'll therefore need to build another generator to provide additional electricity to the area. The game itself will warn you whenever more power is required.

There is also a limit to how much electricity you can generate in each area. You cannot build more than 64 generators in any combination, meaning you can have a maximum of 1,920 units of electricity available at once.