Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Balandyne, Cherkaskyi Raion, Cherkasy Oblast

Balandyne: 1,147 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,144). #98 of 207 in the rayon, #254 of 731 in the oblast.

Cherkasy, the rayon centre, is 56 km away. 131 m above sea level. 15 km away: Kamyanka, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,153. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 53 km. 10.91 m between rows, pitch 14.78 m (latitude 48.9°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,147kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,474kWh/year
Row pitch
14.78m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,230 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Balandyne

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.9° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 53 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

  • No sign-up
  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

34Jan53Feb94Mar119Apr138May142Jun148Jul144Aug117Sep89Oct41Nov28Dec

July: 148 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.3 times less.

November: 41 against 39 in the oblast, 5.1% more.

Balandyne: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,737740140
1011,4741,480280
1517,2112,220420

Snow and wind: Кропивницький

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kropyvnytskyi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 372 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 48,082 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.