For several reasons.
Factorio best square 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.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.
It has 0 84 accumulator panel ratio which is as close as you can get with a perfect square shaped design with proper power lines.
However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design.
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.
This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base.
Just add as needed for each.
Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in.
I almost always exclusively use cilya s design on all of my playthrough s and i still couldn t find a better setup for solar panels after all this time.
This factorio 0 15 workshop covers a solar layout design by zarklord.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
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.
The build has the perfect ratio of solar panels to accumulators is nearly symmetrical and tilable.
Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
I leave a space to walk between.