Space Efficient Solar Panels Factorio

The reason such high space efficiency is possible is by only connecting the substations in lines not a grid.

Space efficient solar panels factorio.

Also solar grids takes up huge ammount of space. Seven solar panels and five accumulators is the most efficient. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. 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.

At the moment i m using solar in a fuel saving capacity. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. 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. By filling in empty spaces around the base i can get some power and than supplement this with nuclear or fossil.

A radar can be continuously powered by eight solar panels and six accumulators. Space science is now used in space by the space science lab. Massive fields of blue and grey squares at the fringes of your base. Astronomical biological material and energy.

When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this. Main reason i don t like solar is the amount of space it takes. I have close to 30k solar panels and the space it takes up is massive. You can also develop 4 new advanced space sciences in using specialised equipment.

These new sciences are data driven and more difficult to set up. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

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. 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. To give you an example. Your design isn t 100 space efficient and it doesn t use diagonally connected roboports.

Quote from factorio wiki. Also your base is really tiny no offense. 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. This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.