Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
Factorio best solar panel layout.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.
This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.
There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
Just add as needed for each.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw 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.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Also there are more capacitors than panels because capacitors are far more important.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
Remember if you don t have enough solar panels things simply don t run as fast but if you don t have enough capacitors your entire base will shut down at night which can and will kill you in the right circumstances.
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.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
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.
Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in.
I leave a space to walk between.
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.
