Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Potoky, Zvenyhorodskyi Raion, Cherkasy Oblast

Potoky: 1,142 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 3° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,144). #104 of 197 in the rayon, #438 of 731 in the oblast.

Shpola, the rayon centre, is 36 km away. 119 m above sea level. 25 km away: Novoarkhanhelsk, the nearest bigger centre, 1,148 — 0.5% less here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 87 km. 10.75 m between rows, pitch 14.62 m (latitude 48.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,142kWh/year
Tilt
36°3° east of south
10 kW
11,419kWh/year
Row pitch
14.62m · 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: Potoky

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.7° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 87 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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

Yield by month

33Jan51Feb90Mar119Apr139May142Jun150Jul144Aug117Sep89Oct40Nov28Dec

July: 150 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.4 times less.

February: 51 against 55 in the oblast, 7.3% less.

Potoky: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,710750140
1011,4191,500280
1517,1292,250420

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.