Efficient Solar Panel Setup Factorio

Its not exact and it changes as i plop down more every so often.

Efficient solar panel setup factorio.

Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines. Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri. My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator. Image credit u deamonengineer probably.

The optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels. My base will burn through about half of my accumulator charge when it is producing at a moderate clip. You can always sacrifice a bit of the optimal ratio for a cleaner design but you should stay in the area of 0 8 0 9. 18 days ago 0 16 1 0 37286.

During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Default production multiplier 10 100 1000. Makes space efficient solar farms viable and reduces the hassle to place as many panels. 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 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. 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. Adds higher tiers of solar panels and accumulators. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.