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I'm using 5 solar panels on the space. They each output 180 kW.

You can see the correct production value is shown when i hover on the solar panels.
But when i hover on the solar panel in the production window they still show 60 kW.

The thing you're hovering over in the second screenshot is the item type. It's not associated with any existent entity; it's the same thing as hovering over a solar panel in your inventory or on the crafting list.

If there's something to be changed, it's perhaps the item description to include information about how it can give different power outputs on different planets or space platforms. "Max output" without mentioning which surface that is relative to is misleading for anyone with space age installed.

While in a vast majority of cases a single electric network exists on a single surface, it is possible with mods to have one network spanning multiple surfaces in which case the tooltip would be ambiguous. I am not considering this to be a bug, its a generic tooltip for given entity type.

I will keep this in bug reports for other devs to decide.

After some additional consideration i am going to definitely move this to Not a bug. I see no reason for having solar panel tooltips for a solar panel group to account for surface conditions same as assemblers do not account for energy consumption effects caused by modules. With assemblers it is even more visible that the tooltip for an entity group must be a generic one: in multiple cases there is simply no valid representative tooltip that would be accurate for all entities in the group.