You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
Best solar panel setup factorio.
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.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.
Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
Looks like 912 accumulators to 16 solar panels which is a 0 560 75 ratio.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
Just add as needed for each.
I leave a space to walk between.
The optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
You can always sacrifice a bit of the optimal ratio for a cleaner design but you should stay in the area of 0 8 0 9.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428.
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.
