Factorio Solar Panel Farm

This tutorial covers solar panel arrangements to use at various stages of the game including the building of the massive ratio perfect array from this foru.

Factorio solar panel farm. Search the tags for mining smelting and advanced production blueprints. 3 new basic heat exchangers for mid game not intended for nuclear power use a cheaper thermal conduit for early game. This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

3 new steam turbines for mid game. 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. But the ratio is off it s 26 accumulators and 32 panels for a ratio of 0 8125. 1 salt evaporation pond to create salt for heat storages.

Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. 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. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. 4 thermal solar panels that produce heat instead of energy.

Used to have a 50x50 design that had 166 of each and just recently switched to this 48x48 design. 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. You should never run into issues. Reduced collision box of big electric pole to allow squeezing between it and an accumulator.

Find blueprints for the video game factorio. Now connectible to the circuit network. In general this is a technique which works well when you ve just researched accumulators and solar panels but don t have enough resources to build big solar farms and accumulator farms yet. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.

I like to go for a 1 1 ratio of accumulators to solar panels. When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.