Solaris Achievment - What does it really take?

[Overki11]

I've been trying to figure out what it really takes to complete the Solaris Achievement. I can read the >10GJ per hour part, but by my calculation I'd have thought that since 10GJ = ~27MegaWatt Hours, which I would have interpreted as ~1620 Megawat Minutes. So I would have thought that having enough solar panels to produce over 500 megawatts for at least 4 minutes, with the demand to consume that much power, would have done it, and I thought I had done that but no luck so far. So maybe one of you could help with where I've gone wrong in my calculations and/or expectations?
Thanks

[Maelstrom]

A Joule is a unit of energy. A Watt is a unit of power equal to one Joule per second. So you need to convert 10 GJ per hour into MJ per second to get MW.

So 10,000,000,000J/3600s = 2,777,778W or 2.8MW, which you will need to sustain for the entire one hour period.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_units

[Overki11]

Ok, so if I misplaced a decimal in there, it only set's the threshold lower.
I have 10k solar panels with the capability to produce ~600MW, given that capacity my base only consumes between 200MW - 500MW at any given time but that is constant, and since solar power is first priority, meaning if solar is available it uses all of the solar power available first, I am easily producing/consuming well in excess of 2.8MW ove the course of a game hour, obviously I can't do that over the course of a real hour given the day/night cycles. So I'm still left pondering what I'm missing. I'll attach a screen shot here in a minute of my power output.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1567784384

So if I understand this correctly I average production/consumption of solar power of about 230MW per second over the course of an hour, which would seem to me to reach the qualification of 10GJ per hour. But I still haven't gotten the achievement so I'm apparently missing something.

[Maelstrom]

I dunno then. Did you save your game at any point after enabling a mod or using a console command? Are you playing for a full real-life hour?

[Overki11]

I've never used any mods, nor console commands, well except Time, but that just reports the time since map creation and honestly my power generation and consumption was about the same even before I used that command, event though I don't think that command disables achievements. Also on the achievement screen it still shows as available, just not achieved.
I've definitely got over an hour of real life game play on the map with comparable power production, actually that previous screenshot I believe proves it since the hour is real time, not game time or I wouldn't have those day/night cycles in my solar power production.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1567798917

[Maelstrom]

Maybe try disconnecting your turbines? I know you can't get the achievement if you have any steam engines connected, it doesn't say anything about turbines but it'd still be the next thing I tried if it were me.

[Overki11]

I've disconnected my turbines and run it for a while but still nothing, even though they don't contribute during the daytime anyway. Any clarity on whether we are talking about a "game hour" or a real hour? and again what level of production is required to get there, is it generating that much power within an hour? or is it some sort of minimum sustained for an hour? along with which kind of hour that is. Thanks
also whether the accumulators also have to be completely disconnected?
and whether just disconnecting them is good enough, or whether I need to physically remove them?

[Drecksnoob1337]

If i remember correctly i disconnected all other power sources and only produced solar power, then i just added more and more solar arrays (with accumulators) and after a while it popped up; but you need a lot space covered and it has to run minimum 1h. (And don't reconnect other power sources)

Hope it helps :)

[Overki11]

Thanks, I'll give it a try with my turbines disconnected I guess for longer, but it sounds like I can at least keep my accumulators connected.

[Illyrien]

Yeah, I also disconnected my steam engines when getting this achievement. I think that is part of the achievement

[Overki11]

So that's the answer in essence, you have to have all steam (turbine or engine) disconnected though they can be present on the map. Accumulators are ok, and it has to run for 1 actual hour. Still not sure what the actual solar power generation threshold is, I ended up averaging 328 MW for the hour... Thanks.

[Lunacy]

You could also just make a solar outposts and you'll get it passively without having to disconnect any main bases.