Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Lotasheve, Zvenyhorodskyi Raion, Cherkasy Oblast

Lotasheve: 1,143 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,144). #89 of 197 in the rayon, #407 of 731 in the oblast.

Shpola, the rayon centre, is 42 km away. 107 m above sea level. 15 km away: Katerynopil, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,140. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 105 km. 10.81 m between rows, pitch 14.68 m (latitude 48.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,143kWh/year
Tilt
36°2° east of south
10 kW
11,428kWh/year
Row pitch
14.68m · GCR 0.33
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,230 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Lotasheve

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.8° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 105 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

33Jan52Feb93Mar119Apr138May141Jun149Jul145Aug117Sep89Oct40Nov27Dec

July: 149 kWh/kWp, December: 27 — 5.5 times less.

January: 33 against 35 in the oblast, 5.7% less.

Lotasheve: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,714745135
1011,4281,490270
1517,1422,235405

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.