Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stepove, Kamianskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Stepove: 1,174 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,177). #139 of 280 in the rayon, #945 of 1501 in the oblast.

Kamyanske, the rayon centre, is 54 km away. 80 m above sea level. 41 km away: Onufriyivka, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,173. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Дніпро, 87 km. 10.72 m between rows, pitch 14.59 m (latitude 48.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,174kWh/year
Tilt
36°2° east of south
10 kW
11,739kWh/year
Row pitch
14.59m · 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: Stepove

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.7° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Дніпро, 87 km: snow 1,340 Pa, wind 470 Pa.

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

Yield by month

37Jan55Feb93Mar119Apr140May145Jun151Jul150Aug122Sep90Oct43Nov29Dec

July: 151 kWh/kWp, December: 29 — 5.2 times less.

November: 43 against 47 in the oblast, 8.5% less.

Stepove: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,870755145
1011,7391,510290
1517,6092,265435

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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Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.