Your ME Network requires energy to operate. All devices draw from a shared pool, while Vibration Chambers, Energy Acceptors, and ME Controllers add energy into the system.

You can view network energy stats by right-clicking anywhere on the network with a Network Tool, or by right-clicking the ME Controller (if present).

Because energy is stored and distributed network-wide, there are no transfer rate limits. Devices can draw arbitrarily high amounts of energy, and acceptors can input energy at effectively unlimited rates, only capped by the network’s storage capacity.

Applied Energistics 2 does not use Forge Energy (FE) or TechReborn Energy (E) internally. Instead, it converts them into its own unit: AE. This conversion is one-way and handled by Energy Acceptors and ME Controllers.

Energy can also be generated directly with:

AE2 is designed to be paired with other tech mods that handle larger-scale energy generation. Treat your ME Network as a single large multiblock machine when designing power distribution.

A network cannot consume or receive more AE per tick than it can store.

Example: If your network has only 800 AE capacity, then in one tick it cannot accept more than 800 AE or spend more than 800 AE. This often causes issues in small networks (e.g., trying to dump an inventory of cobblestone at once). The demand spikes, storage is too small, the network runs out of AE, and it reboots.

The solution is to add Energy Cells.