Factorio Best Square Solar Panel Layout

However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design.

Factorio best square solar panel layout.

The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel. I almost always exclusively use cilya s design on all of my playthrough s and i still couldn t find a better setup for solar panels after all this time. Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.

Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in. For several reasons. I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.

Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else. Just add as needed for each. This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

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. For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators. Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.

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 leave a space to walk between. Haven t seen this design posted anywhere so here is yet another 0 15 solar panel layout this solar panel layout has a roboport only uses 4 substations has the exact 0 84 ratio 84 accumulators 100 solar panels and is symettrical. The build has the perfect ratio of solar panels to accumulators is nearly symmetrical and tilable.

This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism. You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity. This factorio 0 15 workshop covers a solar layout design by zarklord. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base. This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.