Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stepne, Kryvorizkyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Stepne: 1,192 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 3° east of south (PVGIS). 1.2% above the oblast median (1,177). #71 of 272 in the rayon, #184 of 1501 in the oblast.

Kryvyy Rih, the rayon centre, is 16 km away. 89 m above sea level. 16 km away: Kryvyy Rih, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,190. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 106 km. 10.09 m between rows, pitch 13.96 m (latitude 47.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,192kWh/year
Tilt
36°3° east of south
10 kW
11,916kWh/year
Row pitch
13.96m · 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: Stepne

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, 106 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

40Jan61Feb99Mar120Apr138May141Jun150Jul149Aug123Sep92Oct46Nov31Dec

July: 150 kWh/kWp, December: 31 — 4.8 times less.

January: 40 against 35 in the oblast, 14.3% more.

Stepne: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,958750155
1011,9161,500310
1517,8742,250465

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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