Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kravtsivka, Dniprovskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Kravtsivka: 1,177 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 1° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,177). #162 of 240 in the rayon, #714 of 1501 in the oblast.

Dnipro, the rayon centre, is 70 km away. 68 m above sea level. 8 km away: Tsarychanka, the nearest bigger centre, 1,170 — 0.6% more here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Дніпро, 71 km. 11.15 m between rows, pitch 14.97 m (latitude 48.9°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,177kWh/year
Tilt
37°1° east of south
10 kW
11,774kWh/year
Row pitch
14.97m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,340 / 470Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kravtsivka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.9° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Дніпро, 71 km: snow 1,340 Pa, wind 470 Pa.

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

Yield by month

38Jan58Feb97Mar119Apr140May144Jun149Jul149Aug121Sep89Oct44Nov29Dec

July: 149 kWh/kWp, December: 29 — 5.1 times less.

January: 38 against 35 in the oblast, 8.6% more.

Kravtsivka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,887745145
1011,7741,490290
1517,6612,235435

Snow and wind: Дніпро

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Dnipro: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 372 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 49,705 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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