Powah: Getting Started with Crystals and Components
Powah is an energy-generation and storage mod, and it starts with a set of crafting components and its Energizing Orb. This guide covers the materials that everything else is built from.
Dielectric components
Nearly every Powah recipe uses dielectric parts. Craft 
Dielectric Paste from coal, clay and lava (or coal, clay and blaze powder), then make 
Dielectric Rod from paste and iron bars, and combine rods into a 
Dielectric Casing — the shell of most machines.
Energizing crystals
The Energizing Orb powers a set of energizing recipes that create Powah's tiered crystals:
Blazing Crystal — from blaze powder or a blaze rod.
Niotic Crystal — from a diamond.
Spirited Crystal — from an emerald.
Nitro Crystal — from nether stars, redstone blocks and blazing crystal.
These crystals define Powah's tier ladder, from Basic through Blazing, Niotic, Spirited and Nitro.
Capacitors and steel
Capacitors store charge inside machines — a 
Basic Capacitor from iron, dielectric paste and a redstone block, with large and tiny variants. 
Energized Steel (from iron and gold in the Energizing Orb) and an 
Ender Core are components for the mod's advanced and wireless gear.
A crafting-grid mod with one exception
Powah is 144 pages, 99 blocks and 45 items, and its recipe list is 155 crafting recipes plus a single specialised category — Energizing, with 14 recipes on 1.21.1 and 15 on 1.20.1 — and one each of smelting and blasting.
So there is no multiblock to assemble and no machine you must build before you can build machines. Everything starts at a crafting table.
What energizing is for
The energizing recipes cover the handful of materials that cannot be crafted conventionally. Because there are only fourteen, they are the natural checklist for the mod's progression: work out which ones a tier needs and produce those.
Version parity
The two builds are almost identical — 155 crafting recipes each, differing only by one energizing recipe. A guide written for 5.0.11 on 1.20.1 applies almost exactly to 6.2.10 on 1.21.1.
Where to start
Craft the lowest-tier generator and an energy cell. The tier ladder reuses the same recipe patterns throughout, so understanding the first tier means understanding all of them.
Energizing Orb