Efficient Solar Panel Setup Factorio

During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.

Efficient solar panel setup factorio. Default production multiplier 10 100 1000. Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. Image credit u deamonengineer probably.

Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. 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. Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri. Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.

Adds higher tiers of solar panels and accumulators. The optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels. My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator. 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. As for which to actually pick i d say it s up to your preference cilya s design with accumulators instead of a roboport is the only one with perfect 0 86 ratio among popular designs used by factorio players. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. 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.