Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kurhanka, Kryvorizkyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Kurhanka: 1,188 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 3° east of south (PVGIS). 0.9% above the oblast median (1,177). #104 of 272 in the rayon, #274 of 1501 in the oblast.

Kryvyy Rih, the rayon centre, is 25 km away. 84 m above sea level. 19 km away: Kazanka, the nearest bigger centre, 1,179 — 0.7% more here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 99 km. 10.08 m between rows, pitch 13.95 m (latitude 47.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,188kWh/year
Tilt
36°3° east of south
10 kW
11,875kWh/year
Row pitch
13.95m · GCR 0.34
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,230 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kurhanka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 47.8° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 99 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

36Jan58Feb98Mar121Apr138May142Jun152Jul150Aug124Sep93Oct46Nov30Dec

July: 152 kWh/kWp, December: 30 — 5.1 times less.

February: 58 against 54 in the oblast, 7.4% more.

Kurhanka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,938760150
1011,8751,520300
1517,8132,280450

Snow and wind: Кропивницький

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kropyvnytskyi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 372 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 48,082 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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