Not including the roboport and substations only 16 tiles go unused.
Factorio solar farm layout.
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.
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.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
I leave a space to walk between.
The solar ratio is 0 842 with 812 accumulators and 964 solar panels.
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.
I like to go for a 1 1 ratio of accumulators to solar panels.
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.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Used to have a 50x50 design that had 166 of each and just recently switched to this 48x48 design.
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.
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.
So i ve developed a new solar farm layout because i was sick of just using everybody else s.
This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
You should never run into issues.
My solar farm is only a solar farm.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
The layout uses the entire area of the roboport and has nearly no wasted space.
Just add as needed for each.
Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
