It is created using a large or small reactor or windmill or by using a solar panel it can be stored in a battery and discharged to the grid it is built on.
How to set up solar panels space engineers.
In order for a solar panel to produce energy its solar face must be exposed to direct sunlight.
Assembler have same power need as refinery so arelady you have 1 1mw of power demand just for this two.
Solar panel uses natural sunlight to produce power.
That is if a reactor is on a ship all.
The panels are best used with batteries set to recharge or auto mode so as to create mw power output when required for short periods.
5 solars will not power up all your things only one at most.
One solar panel fully working directly pointed at sun will produce 140kw refinery will burn 560kw without any modules.
Any device that has a direct block connection to a power source will be powered by that power source.
Name a solar panel solar panel lower case so it will never be the same as any other default solar panel.
For example two batteries charged by solar panels is able to power a 5mw required machine refinery assembler etc for as long as the batteries remain charged.
Place a programmable block and a timer block anywhere so long as it s connected to the same grind as your solar tracker.
An automatically rotating sun tracking solar panel tower.
Make sure you own everything.
Electricity is a system and resource in space engineers that is used to power most devices.