Energy expense greater than income but not going down, why?

It's most likely because of our overdrive mechanic. Any excess energy you have is out into your mexes to mine more metal. And because of that you will always spend more energy than you produce. At the same time, as long as your production and utility energy usage doesn't exceed your production, then your storage will be full.

So if you produce more energy than you need, excess still gets used by mexes, if you have your generators aren't connected to mexes, they don't overdrive and the number would show no drain probably.

I hope this explanation was clear... I think it could be explained better.

> Is this in teams? If you have allies with extra energy it will be shared to you to stop your bar depleting.

Nah, I see it in solo too.

> If you are out of metal, but you still have lots of builders trying to build things, you will have a large energy demand, even though your builders will not actually use the total amount of energy that they are demanding (since they are stalling on metal). In this situation your energy total will increase, even though the demand is greater than the supply.

Ahh! That makes more sense! Thanks!

The negative numbers shows the demand you had enough metal, not the actual drain which is limited by metal.

The numbers mean the same thing for metal too. If you have 10 metal income and 5 caretakers building, each will demand 10 metal so your metal will show a demand of -50 with arrows that look like <<<<<<. If the UI showed second-to-second storage changes instead then most of the time inflow would match outflow, which wouldn't tell you how much capacity you have to absorb extra income.