Do I understand the Power Storages correctly?

[Zottel]

I need a brief explanation of power storage. With all Power Storages fully charged, I have a total of 8000 MWh available. Let's say my factory has a consumption of 1000 MW and I switch off all coal-fired power plants and biomass burners. Does that mean I could supply my factory for 8 hours in real time with the Power Storages?

[curtyuiop]

yes

[Wolfgang]

That is correct.

[Still B0r3d]

Welcome to reality

[SourHammer]

That sounds about right to me. I dont really use them though since Once I hit coal generation I up scale my power like crazy. Im always making about twice the amound of power that Im actually using. And when I get close to that number I upscale again, by the time Im able to make turbo fuel I have 300 or so fuel generators and 50 or 60 coal generators running so I dont really bother with the storage, except for aesthetics in buildings.

[not solis]

oh cool thats good to know

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by SourHammer:

That sounds about right to me. I dont really use them though since Once I hit coal generation I up scale my power like crazy. Im always making about twice the amound of power that Im actually using. And when I get close to that number I upscale again, by the time Im able to make turbo fuel I have 300 or so fuel generators and 50 or 60 coal generators running so I dont really bother with the storage, except for aesthetics in buildings.

I would still recommend to have some so that your factory can run on them for about an hour in case the worst happens and an update invalidates the oil and coal nodes or messes other stuff up in a big way that causes your energy production to stop.
See them as an insurance for the worst possible scenario.

[Zottel]

Originally posted by SourHammer:

That sounds about right to me. I dont really use them though since Once I hit coal generation I up scale my power like crazy. Im always making about twice the amound of power that Im actually using. And when I get close to that number I upscale again, by the time Im able to make turbo fuel I have 300 or so fuel generators and 50 or 60 coal generators running so I dont really bother with the storage, except for aesthetics in buildings.

That's how I do it. Currently, I have only researched coal-fired power plants, so I can't switch to anything else yet. I currently have 54 of them running and thus a production of 3900 with a real consumption of about 1200 (3800 maximum, so I'm above that even at maximum capacity). Unfortunately, I can't increase the number of coal-fired power plants much, since the coal sources are finite and I also need a certain amount for the production of steel. I think the Power Storages are intended more as an improved form of the Biomass Burner for the kickstart, rather than as a real energy supplier.

[Vectorspace]

8000 MWh = 8000 MW for 1 hour, 4000 for 2 hours, 2000 for 4 hours, etc.

The Watt-hour is the standard unit of electrical energy, though is more typically specified in Kilowatt-hours rather than Watt-hours or Megawatt-hours, because Kilowatt-hours is better scaled for the most common uses.

[McCloud]

Once I figured out it was Mega-Watt and not Mega-Wat the Power Storage system started making sense to me. I just thought it meant someone was very very [mega] confused.

[Mister Fabulous]

Conversely, it can go the other direction. They take an hour (at best) to charge 100MW, but discharge as fast as needed.

You can run a demand of 16,000MW for a half hour for example.

[SourHammer]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by SourHammer:

That sounds about right to me. I dont really use them though since Once I hit coal generation I up scale my power like crazy. Im always making about twice the amound of power that Im actually using. And when I get close to that number I upscale again, by the time Im able to make turbo fuel I have 300 or so fuel generators and 50 or 60 coal generators running so I dont really bother with the storage, except for aesthetics in buildings.

I would still recommend to have some so that your factory can run on them for about an hour in case the worst happens and an update invalidates the oil and coal nodes or messes other stuff up in a big way that causes your energy production to stop.
See them as an insurance for the worst possible scenario.

If an update breaks my world I just start a new save. Or just go fix them and if I need to get some power to start initially I will throw down some bio burners to kick start it.

[Gecko-[GER]]

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

8000 MWh = 8000 MW for 1 hour, 4000 for 2 hours, 2000 for 4 hours, etc.

The Watt-hour is the standard unit of electrical energy, though is more typically specified in Kilowatt-hours rather than Watt-hours or Megawatt-hours, because Kilowatt-hours is better scaled for the most common uses.

I'm sorry but the standard unit is Ws (Watt-second) 1 Ws = 1 J (Joule) = 1 Nm (Newtonmeter)

[Stress Tensor]

Originally posted by Gecko-GER:

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

8000 MWh = 8000 MW for 1 hour, 4000 for 2 hours, 2000 for 4 hours, etc.

The Watt-hour is the standard unit of electrical energy, though is more typically specified in Kilowatt-hours rather than Watt-hours or Megawatt-hours, because Kilowatt-hours is better scaled for the most common uses.

I'm sorry but the standard unit is Ws (Watt-second) 1 Ws = 1 J (Joule) = 1 Nm (Newtonmeter)

Correct (glad someone mentioned it) - Joule is the standard unit of energy. Even Watt-second would be somewhat "circular" as a definition since Watt is defined as one Joule/second.

But, yeah (to state the obvious) using terms like kilo/mega/giga/watt-hours is convenient for converting energy use/storage into power and time components.

[Vectorspace]

I stand corrected

[Tesla]

Hello ladies and gents. How many power storage do i need? I have 33 MW production, consuming 15MW and Max Cons is 27MW. How many Power Storage should i build?