Thanks for the notes. I'll check and see about the solar thing when I get a chance tonight. That may explain the outages.
As for purchasing power from my other city, I only have two, so the fill excess should be available. I also haven't had outages in my main city since well before I started City 2, so that shouldn't be the issue. I know it can take some time to sync that, but it doesn't ever work. I've let it sit until my entire city2 burns down (hours in real time) and it never connects. I've also switched to my main city and let it run for an hour or two and it never connects from that end either. It always says "buying 0 of 2000MW" or whatever the actual number is (somewhere in the 1900's actually). If I switch to regional view it'll show the arrow indicating I'm sending power to the other city, but it'll never actually connect. I don't think it's a time delay thing, I think it's just not connecting to city2.
Incidentally, if I purchase power from city1, that should cover me when city 2 runs out over night (assuming that's the issue) and keep the blackouts from happening, correct? It'll purchase when the supply drops and then stop once the supply picks up again the next day? So rather than shut down my solar plant I can just leave it on and see if the blackouts stop and that should tell me if it's actually connecting? Just looking for a way to keep from having my whole city burn down while I wait to see if it actually connects.
I'll post some screenshots tonight.
JAW