This is because it doesn t waste any space that is occupied by unnecessary solar panels.
Factorio best square solar panel layout.
This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.
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.
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.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
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.
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.
Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base.
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.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
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.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
The build has the perfect ratio of solar panels to accumulators is nearly symmetrical and tilable.
For several reasons.
There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design.
Just add as needed for each.
I leave a space to walk between.
This factorio 0 15 workshop covers a solar layout design by zarklord.
