I've just now hit a point where I've balanced energy & population; at my next cycle, I should be able to increase pop substantially and have the energy to cover it. Sometime tomorrow I should have enough money to jump to level 9 and start getting Thorium Reactors.
Worth noting: If you're running just about matched for energy & pop--as in, not in the red, but not much green--when you jump levels, you'll need [population] extra energy points. (Which is obvious from the "Energy needs = Population * Level" equation, but I hadn't consciously sorted out how that played out when increasing levels.)
So now I'm planning for that, trying to make sure I have excess energy points or unsurged energy assets when I go up my next level to cover for that.
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