Factorio Efficient Solar Panel Layout

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During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. Features of this calculator include. You may find an essay on the subject which outlines the techniques used in this calculator here.

I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar. I m very new here and i just discovered that you only need a few solar panels to fully charge a huge network of accumulators. This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels. This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.

However i sort of concede that it is possible however the alignment of solar panels in the manor you suggest would actually waste more space than gained. However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design. Your design isn t 100 space efficient and it doesn t use diagonally connected roboports. Just add as needed for each.

Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph. 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.

When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this. Myself and another very experienced factorio player are doing a series where we go over different designs of pretty much everything and show some good and bad ways to do it and improve them etc. Does anybody have images or links to efficient layouts for automating essential things. The reason such high space efficiency is possible is by only connecting the substations in lines not a grid.

Bad layout factorio fanmade comic strip 16 donate. This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism. The solar panels pull in enough power during one day to easily charge my accumulators with 8 9gj which is more than enough to fully run all aspects of my base even when it is operating at maximum capacity in both production and purple science research day and night. 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.