Current Converter off in a blackout

What the patch states

• Power Line Hijack makes Current Converters 15% cheaper to run.
• The same perk lets them work during blackouts.
• Power Line Hijack II and Power Line Hijack III exist. The post says they make converters even cheaper. It does not print the extra percents.
• The Current Converter counts as a Tool.
• A machine tooltip shows Required Energy when the power source cannot cover the coming night. The alarm shows as unpowered, and the Nightly Report warns you, when its cell cannot cover the nightly draw.
• Lower Levels Power Outage no longer counts as a blackout event.

If the bill still looks wrong

1. Check the converter is the machine the tooltip is describing, and that it counts as a Tool after the patch.
2. Check whether Power Line Hijack is the perk you actually have. Only the 15% line is in the post. II and III are named, not numbered.
3. A blackout is not the same event as Lower Levels Power Outage after this patch. The converter's blackout exception is the Hijack perk, not a promise that every outage is free.
4. The rent planner's nightly power row is the shop fee in the older data file. It is not a converter service total, and this page does not add the two together.

A community page prints further discounts. Those rates were not in the Steam post read on 9 Nov 2026 (Asia/Shanghai), so they are not in the list above. There is no converter calculator on this site.

Water machines and the fish tank are customers of power, not this service. Their pages stay on the water guide and the fish suffocating overnight. The patch list is on updates.