Then when both of those are met build some more.
Factorio solar panels to accumulators ratio.
A close enough ratio is 20 24 1 accumulators to solar panels to megawatts required for example a factory requiring 10 mw can be approximately.
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.
Solar panels are producing 100 nominal power 50 of the day.
Or we can say we need 25 solar panels per 21 accumulators.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
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.
So the op post is 100 accurate.
Since you need more you can not round down so roughly 92 or 92 accumulators per 100 solar panels 23 25 or 46 50 or inversely you get roughly 1 091325249022011 solar panels per accumulator this change means in the long run you need less solar per accumulator.
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.
And each cycle the accumulator charge goes from 0 to 100 and back to 0.
Your factory needs an average p power.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
Optimal ratio 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.
I tried it out in sandbox mode with krastorio 2 and it seems correct.
20 regular solar panels or 8 advanced solar panels combined with 14 20 0 7 accumulators gave a stable 1 4mw for 35 sentinels 35 20kw 1 4mw.
Now you have enough for a while.
Without detailed calculations i believe that solar panels cost more than accumulators.
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.