Efficient Solar Panels Factorio

There are 327 panels and 539 accumulators in this thing.

Efficient solar panels factorio.

Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. For the record solar panels provide 42kw on average so you need power consumption 42kw solar panels approximately 40 extra not 100 and enough accumulators to store the excess power consumption 42kw 0 84 last edited by alexmbrennan. Feb 3 2017 8 44am 11. It s large scale but it s a great way to ramp up your energy potential.

2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428. Makes space efficient solar farms viable and reduces the hassle to place as many panels. It has a space efficiency space taken up by panels and accumulators of 0 9898. You can get great efficiency with solar panels and capacitors especially using roboports and blueprints.

So if a solar panel has an efficiency rating of 15 that means 15 of the sunlight that hits the solar panels will be converted into electricity. 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. As you can see i rotated half of them to make it symmetrical. Massive fields of blue and grey squares at the fringes of your base.

Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. I ve tried to make the most use of empty space by putting panels and accumulators everywhere. 13 days ago 0 16 1 0 36868. Very close to the ideal of 0 84.

Adds higher tiers of solar panels and accumulators. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Here s what it looks like and here s what an array of 32 of them look like together. Default production multiplier 10 100 1000.

14 substations 373 accumulators and 444 solar panels. Solar panel efficiency is a measure of how much sunlight that hits the surface area of a solar panel is converted into usable electricity. Main reason i don t like solar is the amount of space it takes. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

At the moment i m using solar in a fuel saving capacity. So almost 99 and an accumulator to solar panel ratio of 0 84009. If you d like i ve got a symmetrical design here i worked on awhile ago.