Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Valyava, Chernivetskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast

Valyava: 1,142 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 38° 1° west of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,143). #138 of 215 in the rayon, #224 of 422 in the oblast.

Chernivtsi, the rayon centre, is 17 km away. 249 m above sea level. 6 km away: Kitsman, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,137. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Чернівці, 18 km. 11.02 m between rows, pitch 14.79 m (latitude 48.4°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,142kWh/year
Tilt
38°1° west of south
10 kW
11,415kWh/year
Row pitch
14.79m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-38 °Cregion IIIA, Carpathian
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,320 / 500Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Valyava

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.4° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Чернівці, 18 km: snow 1,320 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

44Jan60Feb97Mar118Apr131May129Jun139Jul136Aug114Sep89Oct47Nov36Dec

July: 139 kWh/kWp, December: 36 — 3.9 times less.

December: 36 against 37 in the oblast, 2.7% less.

Valyava: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,708695180
1011,4151,390360
1517,1232,085540

Snow and wind: Чернівці

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Chernivtsi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 412 kg of steel, 16 piles, materials ≈ 54,638 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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