Satisfactory Fuel Consumption per Generator (1.2)

One Fuel Generator uses 20 m³ of Fuel/min for 250 MW at 100% clock, with no direct Water input. Turbofuel drops consumption to 7.5 m³/min at the same output. [1]

At 100% clock, fully supplied; Biomass rates assume full power demand. [2]

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Fuel consumption and burn time per generator

All 17 fuel combinations, at 100% clock. Each group shares the stated output and Water demand; no other supplemental inputs are listed in this export. [1]

Scope: the standalone Biomass Burner, Coal-Powered Generator, Fuel-Powered Generator and Nuclear Power Plant. HUB burners, Geothermal Generators and Alien Power Augmenters are outside this export’s generator list. Biomass consumption follows demand; the other listed generators burn at their set rate while running. [2] [3] [6] [7]

Generators per resource node or well satellite

Each cell shows resource/min → generator equivalents (gen.), with extractors, miners and generators at 100% clock; wells use a pressurizer at the same clock. Impure, Normal and Pure are separate node scenarios. Oil uses the standard Fuel recipe. Fractional counts are capacity equivalents, before belt or pipe constraints. [1] [4] [5]

For a normal Coal node, Miner Mk.1 supplies 4 generators; Miner Mk.2 supplies 8 generators; Miner Mk.3 supplies 16 generators. Add the Water requirement from the consumption table for every generator. [1]

All well rows are per satellite, not per entire well. Compare miner and extractor throughput →

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Generators fed by one standard refinery

A fully supplied refinery running the named recipe at 100% clock feeds the counts below. These are output ratios, not complete raw-input chains; upstream ingredients and generator Water still need supply. The Ionized Fuel recipe appears for each burnable output, so its inputs are shared. [1]

Standard Fuel: 60 m³/min Crude Oil → 40 m³/min Fuel ÷ 20 m³/min per generator = 2 generators, 500 MW gross. Manage the 30 Polymer Resin items/min alongside the fuel output. [1]

Fluid inputs/outputs are m³/min; solid inputs/outputs are items/min. For shared oil coproducts, see efficient Plastic and Rubber.

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Which generator fits the supply you have?

• Fuel: fluid-fuel power without direct cooling. Higher-energy fuels reduce volume/min; upstream recipes may still need Water. [1]
• Coal: continuous fuel and Water supply. Compacted Coal reduces item throughput; Petroleum Coke uses refinery output. [1]
• Nuclear: high output per plant, with rods, cooling and waste handling planned together. See rates and waste guidance ↑. [3]
• Biomass: small supplied loads. It accepts belt input and throttles fuel use when demand falls. [2]

Generator overclocking: output and fuel consumption scale linearly with clock speed. At 250%, one Fuel-Powered Generator produces 625 MW and burns 50 m³/min Fuel. See the wiki generator rule. [6] For upstream production-machine power draw, read overclocking and Somersloops or use the production-machine overclock calculator.

Raw inputs per 1 GW gross power

Each plan supplies 1,000 MW of gross generation. It minimizes the sum of raw-input rates, including upstream Water and generator cooling Water. Solids are items/min; Water, Crude Oil and Nitrogen Gas are m³/min. Standard only uses recipes with alt=false; Alternates allowed also permits alt=true. Recipe names for each solution are expandable below. [1]

Fuel example: 4 generators consume 80 m³/min Fuel. Standard recipes need 120 m³/min Crude Oil; allowing alternates reduces that to 90 m³/min in the minimum-total-raw plan. This objective counts Water equally with oil, so it differs from minimizing oil alone. See the worked calculation ↓ [1]

The raw target is gross output, not power left for your factory: production, extraction and transport draw must be budgeted separately. Surplus raw outputs receive no credit, and surplus products must be removed. Fractional generator counts normalize comparisons; they are not whole-building layouts. Explore recipe chains in the production optimizer →

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Sources

1. Download versioned calculations (JSON) — v1.2.3.1, export 2026-06-25, computed 2026-10-29; includes source hash, recipe modes, machine equivalents and every result. Method and worked example. Generated by scripts/power-table.mjs from src/data/sat.json using src/lib/alt-tiers.ts.
2. Official Wiki: Biomass Burner — belt input and demand-dependent consumption.
3. Official Wiki: Nuclear Power Plant — fuel rods, cooling, waste and set-clock operation.
4. Official Wiki: Resource Node — Impure / Normal / Pure scenarios.
5. Official Wiki: Resource Well — per-satellite extraction and pressurizer clock.
6. Official Wiki: Fuel-Powered Generator — building reference and operating behavior.
7. Official Wiki: Coal-Powered Generator — set-clock fuel consumption and pipe capacity; Water Extractor — surface-water cooling rate.