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I had another situation where I used a lot of bots and spiked my power shortly. First i tried accumulators, but their output rate was again too slow. Instead it was much better to just increase the amount of turbines to also cover the biggest peaks.

Since the game has already introduced the objects known as supercapacitors, why don't we utilize them as ingredient for possible accumulator mk.2's?

Capacitors are known for fast charge/discharge rate, so it is reasonable to dramatically increase their charge/discharge rate, especially the latter. Thus, they can be quite useful during huge power spikes,e.g. when laser towers are firing and/or rocket silos launching rockets.

(Actually, I believe it is fair that the ultimate accumulators can discharge as fast as possible, though an upper limit is still required for charging rate to balance it.)