Perfect Factorio Solar Panel Layout

I took to my sandbox editor and threw together a basic design checked it for ratios and found it a perfect 84 accumulators and 100 solar panels.

Perfect factorio solar panel layout.

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. I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar. So i felt like designing a solar layout because i d seen some talk about it recently. 2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428.

Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism. Even though this substation box design is more compact and has a higher space efficiency than this perf ratio 324 design the second design makes better use of both land and resources by being in the correct ratio.

Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. I leave a space to walk between. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. Published on oct 12 2017 this factorio 0 15 workshop covers a solar layout design by zarklord.

However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. 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. Just add as needed for each.

Mk1 a mark one is just a bunch of poles with y know solar panels mixed in madzuri nov 2016 mk2 focuses on ratios mk3 uses roboports to construct the tile mk4 uses a diagonal spacing to reduce roboports and ups mk5 makes use of most if not all of the radar range. This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. 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.