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Maybe someone can enlighten me.
If i have a solar panel and this solar panel is covered by 2 poles that are in seperate networks. How does the solar panel distribute the energy to the networks? 50:50? What if one network is saturated and the other not - does the raqtio change?
More advanced question: Are those solar panels handled like any other solar panel in a network (Just 1 calculation for all solar panels) or are those handled differently?

Questions are just out of curiosity

Sounds like you have some scienceing to do!

It's not 50/50, that is for sure as one network can get completely starved of electricity. I suspect it depends on power pole placement order, probably first pole placed gets dibs on the power.

So i checked this myself. The simple answer is (0.15.27):

The energy output of the solar panels is doubled if 2 networks are connected!

I assumed that would be the case, it's the most processing-efficient means of doing it and it's not exactly an easy thing to exploit, especially with solar. With nuclear you might be able to do something like manually wire power poles between the boilers so each connects to two networks, one to power your main base and another to power your outposts but it would be a headache.

FunMaker wrote:So i checked this myself. The simple answer is (0.15.27):

The energy output of the solar panels is doubled if 2 networks are connected!

I'm not able to reproduce that.

I just tried it and this was the result I got:

• Solar Panel: Power is evenly split between networks, so if there are two networks each gets 30kW. It's not weighted by demand - an empty power pole will get an equal fraction even though there is no load to use it.
• Steam Engine/Turbine and Accumulator: Power is allocated on a first-come first-serve basis, the oldest pole gets first dibs, there is no attempt to spread the power evenly but it will only go to poles which can use the power.

My fault...

i just removed the consumer on one network and the percentual saturation of the other networks consumer did not change. So i assumed, that the power is doubled (because removing one did not change the result). I did not check absolute power values...