With the world slowly moving to the much dreaded energy crisis it is important that we reduce our dependency on non renewable sources of energy.
Perfect factorio solar panel layout.
So i felt like designing a solar layout because i d seen some talk about it recently.
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.
However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels.
This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
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 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.
I took to my sandbox editor and threw together a basic design checked it for ratios and found it a perfect 84 accumulators and 100 solar panels.
Mk1 a mark one is just a bunch of poles with y know solar panels mixed in madzuri nov 2016 mk2 focuses on ratios mk3 uses roboports to construct the tile mk4 uses a diagonal spacing to reduce roboports and ups mk5 makes use of most if not all of the radar range.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
Just add as needed for each.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
Three types of energy solutions fall into the category of renewable energy factorio solar panel layout energy hydro energy and wind energy solutions.
I leave a space to walk between.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Even though this substation box design is more compact and has a higher space efficiency than this perf ratio 324 design the second design makes better use of both land and resources by being in the correct ratio.
