Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Karlivka, Pokrovskyi Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Karlivka: 1,160 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,161). #128 of 262 in the rayon, #701 of 1312 in the oblast.

Pokrovsk, the rayon centre, is 30 km away. 144 m above sea level. 25 km away: Donetsk, the nearest bigger centre, 1,170 — 0.9% less here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Запоріжжя, 177 km. 10.29 m between rows, pitch 14.16 m (latitude 48.1°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,160kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,602kWh/year
Row pitch
14.16m · GCR 0.34
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,110 / 460Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Karlivka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.1° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Запоріжжя, 177 km: snow 1,110 Pa, wind 460 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

37Jan55Feb91Mar114Apr136May141Jun147Jul149Aug124Sep91Oct47Nov28Dec

August: 149 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.3 times less.

October: 91 against 90 in the oblast, 1.1% more.

Karlivka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,801745140
1011,6021,490280
1517,4032,235420

Snow and wind: Запоріжжя

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Zaporizhzhia: 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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