Factorio Solar Farm Layout

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.

Factorio solar farm layout.

Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. I like to go for a 1 1 ratio of accumulators to solar panels. So i ve developed a new solar farm layout because i was sick of just using everybody else s.

Not including the roboport and substations only 16 tiles go unused. For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators. I leave a space to walk between. The layout uses the entire area of the roboport and has nearly no wasted space.

Just add as needed for each. 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. Used to have a 50x50 design that had 166 of each and just recently switched to this 48x48 design. My solar farm is only a solar farm.

You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. The solar ratio is 0 842 with 812 accumulators and 964 solar panels. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.

Accumulators can store output energy 5 times faster than solar panels can supply so if you ve got about three times more solar panels than you need energy. You should never run into issues. My only critique would be that your setup seems to have 6 panels per 1 power pole vs my design which uses 8 solar panels per 1 power pole. That chart is hella useful but i m curious how materials compare between those setups for very large arrays over areas as big as 1000x1000 or 10 000x10 000.

This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.