Space Efficient Solar Panels Factorio

When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.

Space efficient solar panels factorio.

Seven solar panels and five accumulators is the most efficient. To give you an example. Astronomical biological material and energy. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

Quote from factorio wiki. However i sort of concede that it is possible however the alignment of solar panels in the manor you suggest would actually waste more space than gained. Space science is now used in space by the space science lab. Each blueprint produces 131 116 mw of power on average.

A space efficiency of 12 55 tiles per solar panel and 209 22 300 tiles per mw which makes it i believe the most space efficient solar setup of version 0 15. Also your base is really tiny no offense. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. By filling in empty spaces around the base i can get some power and than supplement this with nuclear or fossil.

Main reason i don t like solar is the amount of space it takes. An accumulator panel ratio of 0 84118 very close to the perfect 0 84. Once you get to a larger scale you need to build alot of solar panels and accumulators and it is a huge drain on steel and batterys. You can also develop 4 new advanced space sciences in using specialised equipment.

At the moment i m using solar in a fuel saving capacity. I have close to 30k solar panels and the space it takes up is massive. Your design isn t 100 space efficient and it doesn t use diagonally connected roboports. This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.

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. Also solar grids takes up huge ammount of space. It gives the radar full power all but a short time in the morning but never dips below the 20 power threshold for nearby scanning. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.

A radar can be continuously powered by eight solar panels and six accumulators. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. A size of 198x198 tiles.