You would always be running off of the generators and fuel.
Empyrion using solar panels.
Solar energy setups can be complicated and require some thought to become truly efficient.
For more power add more panels or replace your small.
Generators do still need a fuel tank and battery power overflow does not get stored as fuel.
Solar panels get power from the sun during the day and store their excess in the solar capacitor for when the panel isn t producing power.
So if your panels are enough you won t use any fuel.
Panel placement panel size weather and time of day all affect the output of solar panels.
You can combine solar and generators and the solar gets used first.
Empyrion galactic survival.
As a guide each panel can produce 50 60kw of power so you can produce up to about 1mw of power.
Solar panel blocks are blocks used as an alternate source of power.
As such it.
Use some solar panels and a solar capacitor.
The best way to make use of solar energy is to set up device grouping in the control panel.
Generally love thy survival constructor.
Solar panels have both sloped and horizontal varieties to enable more efficient.
In addition any generators present in the base will not consume fuel as long as there is ample solar energy stored in capacitors to meet the base s power needs.
What gave you that idea.
This is a survival game speed costs and kills and it s efficient.
Empyrion galactic survival.
In this game if you try to use solar that is used first before power in the base.
Also solar panels won t work if you have a generator in your base.
So if you have too many devices turned on your batteries capacitors will never charge.
There are no infinite sources in empyrion other than the trusty survival constructor and water so not dying and spending most of your time not just mining is pretty much about using energy efficiently.
If there are generators present the base will draw power from the capacitor s before using the generator s.
Having a backup generator is probably a good idea.
It is not the other way around.
Solar capacitors will always prioritize using solar energy before burning fuel.