Can't buy power from neighboring city

I have two cities in a region. One is out of power and all my services have shutdown, and the other city has a coal power plant with a ton of extra power.

I purchased buy from city A to city B, but nothing is happening. When I go to the region view and look at the stats for buying the power. It says Using 0 MW/154.3 MW for $0.

I thought maybe it was a server issue, but it's been like this now for two days.

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EDIT:

I'm confused. Most of my city is red without power, but the power stats say Needed 42 MW, 106 Capacity. With 64.5 excess

What is going on? My solar power plant says it's shut down because of a lack of workers, but I need power to get workers.

EDIT:

I shutdown both power plants, and now it says -40 deficit but it's still not buying power from the other city.

EDIT:

Great. Now my power plants won't power back up and the entire city is dead. This game sucks.