Factorio Best Solar Panel Layout

Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base.

Factorio best solar panel layout.

Also there are more capacitors than panels because capacitors are far more important. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw. The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.

Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else. Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.

During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. I leave a space to walk between. Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in. Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.

Just add as needed for each. This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.

Remember if you don t have enough solar panels things simply don t run as fast but if you don t have enough capacitors your entire base will shut down at night which can and will kill you in the right circumstances. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity. Haven t seen this design posted anywhere so here is yet another 0 15 solar panel layout this solar panel layout has a roboport only uses 4 substations has the exact 0 84 ratio 84 accumulators 100 solar panels and is symettrical.

For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators. 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. Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.