Efficient Solar Panel Setup Factorio

Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines.

Efficient solar panel setup factorio.

Its not exact and it changes as i plop down more every so often. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri.

During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator. Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. 18 days ago 0 16 1 0 37286.

My base will burn through about half of my accumulator charge when it is producing at a moderate clip. The optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels. This means that you need 1 428 mw of production of solar panels and 100mj of storage to provide 1 mw of power over one day night cycle. The optimal ratio is 0 84 21 25 accumulators per solar panel and 23 8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators.

Makes space efficient solar farms viable and reduces the hassle to place as many panels. You can always sacrifice a bit of the optimal ratio for a cleaner design but you should stay in the area of 0 8 0 9. Image credit u deamonengineer probably. Adds higher tiers of solar panels and accumulators.