Power security is one of the early-game scrambles. For my money, the X1 Power Generator is one of the earliest things you should research as it's literally more than twice as efficient as the basic power generator. You should work fairly aggressively toward the ore processor and energy refinery as well, but just that one switch should dramatically extend the time you have to work with.

The last of the story content was delivered last week, and I have to say I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone reacts to it. At this point I believe there's still some translation and implementation to do, but I can't say more than that. Release timelines and build stability are emphatically not my department. :D