The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
Factorio solar panel to accumulator ratio.
So for 2 1mw this works out to 50 solar panels and 42 accumulators exactly.
Then when both of those are met build some more.
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.
Your solar panels have 2 functions.
It takes 23 8 solar panels to operate 1 mw of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 mw through the night.
The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators.
The ratios posted result in more solar panels then are needed to power factory and charge accumulators i had posted this in a topic on the steam forum a week ago when somebody was asking about solar panels and another person brought up the 0 8 1 ratio.
Dusk dawn so on average they produce 70 of nominal power.
We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.
Alternatively this works out to a ratio of 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators level 2.
Or we can say we need 25 solar panels per 21 accumulators.
Night solar panels are producing 50 nominal power 40 of the day.
8571 3 7 kw solar panels 600 mj capacity of accumulators so the result is we need 25 21 1 190476 period 6 more solar panels than accumulators.
Provide power p recharge 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.
Or we can say we need 21 25 0 84 accumulators per solar panel.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
Solar panels are producing 0 nominal power 10 of the day.
These are the numbers i use.
500 21 p mw solar panels 20 p mw accumulators.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
So the op post is 100 accurate.
We could do that the other way around.
When accumulator and solar tech is first obtained i establish the ratio on a blueprint.
Now you have enough for a while.
A single solar panel outputs an average of 42 kw over a day and requires 0 84 accumulators to sustain a constant power output through the night.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
