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Efficient solar panels factorio.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428.
Makes space efficient solar farms viable and reduces the hassle to place as many panels.
I ve tried to make the most use of empty space by putting panels and accumulators everywhere.
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.
If you d like i ve got a symmetrical design here i worked on awhile ago.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
You can get great efficiency with solar panels and capacitors especially using roboports and blueprints.
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At the moment i m using solar in a fuel saving capacity.
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.
It has a space efficiency space taken up by panels and accumulators of 0 9898.
Solar panel efficiency is a measure of how much sunlight that hits the surface area of a solar panel is converted into usable electricity.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
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.
Massive fields of blue and grey squares at the fringes of your base.
As you can see i rotated half of them to make it symmetrical.
It s large scale but it s a great way to ramp up your energy potential.
Main reason i don t like solar is the amount of space it takes.
Adds higher tiers of solar panels and 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.
There are 327 panels and 539 accumulators in this thing.
Very close to the ideal of 0 84.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
14 substations 373 accumulators and 444 solar panels.
So almost 99 and an accumulator to solar panel ratio of 0 84009.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
