Is there nothing I can do to get power to these buildings?

[MOWS 4 U 169]

I started this city with a coal power plant in the far corner (opposite the corner pictured) and everything was fine at the lowest density level.  When the buildings by the shore increased to medium density the were no longer getting power so I put a wind power plant nearby, problem solved.  When the buildings grew to the third density level things were fine for about 6-8 months in-game.  Now all the sudden they aren't getting power again.  Is there anything else I can do to get power down by the shore?

 

[The_City_Builder 299]

When your city get's really big (well, not 'big' but you get the idea) and you have a lot of higher density buildings, you should always keep an excess of at least 100mw of power. It seems silly, but that's what I have to do a lot at least. Or, you could build a road from that ledge down into the area where the power isn't flowing.

[morriswalters 16]

Be careful paying attention to the power chart.  They don't work well and the individual utilities  info isn't any better.  Also windmills start and stop at random times.   As the buildings jump in density they jump in consumption.  Add more fans and see it that helps.  I did an experiment using a long road on a empty maps.  Agents dissipate over time,  Given a sufficiently long road with intersections and they can't light the road lights. Other than that I don't know what to tell you.

[Monster's Cat 120]

Build more power plants for excess power. The more you have, the less likely buildings will get "brownouts" as they call it.

[NovaBlazer 10]

I agree with the others... brownouts can spike and drop, be sure to have plenty of extra power in your grid. 

 

The wind power (while I have never had an issue with it) with speed 3, may be causing your issues here, try plopping a clean coal plant for a few in game hours on speed 2 (llama) and see if that finally pushes power to your brown out sections.

[Stuart98 98]

2 clean coal plants would actually be a little cheaper than 1 clean oil plant, except that the major expense is the importing of fossil fuel. It would cost 1.5 times as much to ship in enough coal for two plants than enough oil for one, ignoring the fact that oil usage decreases with tech level on oil, as opposed to increasing with tech level on coal.

 

tl;dr Use clean oil instead of clean coal.