Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Petrakivka, Zvenyhorodskyi Raion, Cherkasy Oblast

Petrakivka: 1,136 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 35° 2° east of south (PVGIS). 0.7% below the oblast median (1,144). #178 of 197 in the rayon, #587 of 731 in the oblast.

Shpola, the rayon centre, is 35 km away. 163 m above sea level. 18 km away: Katerynopil, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,140. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 94 km. 10.53 m between rows, pitch 14.45 m (latitude 48.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,136kWh/year
Tilt
35°2° east of south
10 kW
11,360kWh/year
Row pitch
14.45m · 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: Petrakivka

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, 94 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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

Yield by month

31Jan50Feb90Mar120Apr138May142Jun149Jul145Aug117Sep89Oct39Nov26Dec

July: 149 kWh/kWp, December: 26 — 5.7 times less.

January: 31 against 35 in the oblast, 11.4% less.

Petrakivka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,680745130
1011,3601,490260
1517,0402,235390

Snow and wind: Кропивницький

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kropyvnytskyi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 382 kg of steel, 14 piles, materials ≈ 49,026 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.