This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
Factorio solar farm layout.
The layout uses the entire area of the roboport and has nearly no wasted space.
I like to go for a 1 1 ratio of accumulators to solar panels.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Not including the roboport and substations only 16 tiles go unused.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
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.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
That chart is hella useful but i m curious how materials compare between those setups for very large arrays over areas as big as 1000x1000 or 10 000x10 000.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
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.
The solar ratio is 0 842 with 812 accumulators and 964 solar panels.
I leave a space to walk between.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
Just add as needed for each.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
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.
So i ve developed a new solar farm layout because i was sick of just using everybody else s.
Used to have a 50x50 design that had 166 of each and just recently switched to this 48x48 design.
You should never run into issues.
My solar farm is only a solar 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.
My only critique would be that your setup seems to have 6 panels per 1 power pole vs my design which uses 8 solar panels per 1 power pole.
