Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Chepyne, Kamianskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Chepyne: 1,185 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 1° east of south (PVGIS). 0.7% above the oblast median (1,177). #12 of 280 in the rayon, #365 of 1501 in the oblast.

Kamyanske, the rayon centre, is 20 km away. 157 m above sea level. 20 km away: Kamyanske, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,184. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Дніпро, 53 km. 10.60 m between rows, pitch 14.47 m (latitude 48.5°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,185kWh/year
Tilt
36°1° east of south
10 kW
11,849kWh/year
Row pitch
14.47m · GCR 0.33
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,340 / 470Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Chepyne

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.5° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Дніпро, 53 km: snow 1,340 Pa, wind 470 Pa.

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

Yield by month

37Jan56Feb96Mar119Apr141May145Jun151Jul152Aug124Sep91Oct45Nov28Dec

August: 152 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.4 times less.

January: 37 against 35 in the oblast, 5.7% more.

Chepyne: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,925760140
1011,8491,520280
1517,7742,280420

Snow and wind: Дніпро

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Dnipro: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 346 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 51,820 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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