Solar panel

Solar panel/infobox

Solar panels are an infinite source of free energy while producing no pollution. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level, 60kW. Generated power will increase/decrease linearly during dusk and dawn, and no power is produced at night. When placed, the Solar Panel takes up 9 spaces, in a 3x3 area.

Basic accumulators can be charged up during the day to power the base at night.

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8 Solar Panels

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An efficient solar panel set up.

Notes

• It takes 23.8 solar panels to operate 1MW of factory and charge enough accumulators to sustain that 1MW through the night

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Solar panels are directly connected to the following achievements:

Solaris

Produce more than 10 GJ energy per hour without the usage of steam engine.

Steam all the way

Win the game without using a solar panel.

History

• 0.13.2:
  • Changed tech requirement from Adv. Electronics to Electronics.

• 0.12.11:
  • Energy of the solar panel is now fractioned between all the networks it's connected to.

• 0.12.0:
  • Massive optimisations to solar panel logic.

• 0.11.0:
  • Significantly slowed crafting speed to 10 secs from 0.5 sec.

• 0.7.1:
  • Made solar panels pre-science pack 3.

• 0.5.0:
  • Unplugged icon shown when not connected to any power transfer device.

• 0.3.0:
  • New solar panel graphics.

• 0.2.1:
  • Priority of power consumption changed to consume from solar panel first.

• 0.1.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Electric network
• Basic accumulator
• Calculating the optimal ratio of accumulators to solar panels
• A Solar Power Excel sheet
• (Forum topic) The way I solar
• Game-day