Central beacon needs to have an on/off. A teammate of mine decided that he desperately need a 64 radius beacon and now we're eating so much coal that we are about to loose the entire 20h play-through. It's quite sad, to be honest

Also, will it respawn later if I remove it with the editor? Our only save made before this great decision of our teammate is nearly 10 hours of gameplay from now. It's rather dispiriting.

the easiest i think if you don't mind using commands would be to unresearch the 2 last levels, and again research the one before:
example if the last level you did is lvl 7:

/c game.forces.player.technologies['dw-factory-beacon-7'].researched=false
/c game.forces.player.technologies['dw-factory-beacon-6'].researched=false
/c game.forces.player.technologies['dw-factory-beacon-6'].researched=true

this should put you back in level 6 beacon.

If you remove it with editor then research a new level, it should come back, but i'd save before doing that.

Related to the ON/OFF: yes, i agree, I just need to find a correct way to do that as the game doesn't allow beacon to be inactive.

Thanks a lot! I'll try the commands.