This issue could be an interaction between Modern-Industrialization and the Lifts mod so I have put this issue in both repositories in this event.
Ref: AztechMC/Modern-Industrialization#119

I was running a creative world to test a few things as part of the All The Fabric 4 (v 0.0.9) pack, there was not much in the world but the setup I had was, a creative tank filled with steam, hooked up to a LV steam turbine, connected via copper cables to a LV Storage unit, connected to the Tech Reborn Blast Furnace. This was all working fine and then I started testing Lifts, I ended up with 2 MK 5 lifts, with a 25 block platform, with the lifts being powered by the more copper cable to the existing network.
This worked fine, then I logged out. When I logged back in the game now always crashes to desktop with the following error:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: May not extract < 0 energy.
	at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:122) ~[guava-21.0.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.machines.components.EnergyComponent$2.extractEnergy(EnergyComponent.java:118) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.pipes.electricity.ElectricityNetwork.transferForTargets(ElectricityNetwork.java:102) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.pipes.electricity.ElectricityNetwork.tick(ElectricityNetwork.java:73) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.pipes.api.PipeNetworkNode.tick(PipeNetworkNode.java:71) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.pipes.impl.PipeBlockEntity.tick(PipeBlockEntity.java:283) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at aztech.modern_industrialization.api.TickableBlock.lambda$getTicker$0(TickableBlock.java:40) ~[Modern-Industrialization-0.5.8.jar:?]
	at net.minecraft.class_2818$class_5563.method_31703(class_2818.java:886) ~[intermediary-1.17.1.jar:?]
	at net.minecraft.class_2818$class_5564.method_31703(class_2818.java:941) ~[intermediary-1.17.1.jar:?]
	at net.minecraft.class_1937.method_18471(class_1937.java:474) ~[intermediary-1.17.1.jar:?]
	at net.minecraft.class_3218.method_18765(class_3218.java:422) ~[intermediary-1.17.1.jar:?]
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.method_3813(MinecraftServer.java:891) ~[intermediary-1.17.1.jar:?]

Full logs here: https://pastebin.com/zBcmp7CX

When I logged out it is highly likely both the steam generator and the battery would be empty, so I don't know if this is an issue caused by Lifts specifically trying to draw power that doesn't exist, or if Modern-Industrialization is having an issue with starting up while a energy network that is asking for power but the generator hasn't be loaded in yet so has no power.

Forgot to attach the crash log itself.
https://pastebin.com/t3gY19hM

I can semi reliably create this issue, I've used the following build in the attached video 3 times, including the NE orientation, and all 3 times it crashes when I reload the world.
Video: https://youtu.be/cV_b7BjsdUM
Log: https://pastebin.com/nrSiGPB0
Crash Log: https://pastebin.com/Z0eeDW49

The CTD issue has been fixed on MI's side, there are still some smaller issues but the CTD one has been fixed. Please see the above referenced issue for more details.