Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Rodnyky, Donetskyi Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Rodnyky: 1,169 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 35° facing south (PVGIS). 0.7% above the oblast median (1,161). #24 of 157 in the rayon, #434 of 1312 in the oblast.

Donetsk, the rayon centre, is 51 km away. 131 m above sea level. 44 km away: Makiyivka, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,167. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Запоріжжя, 245 km. 9.85 m between rows, pitch 13.77 m (latitude 47.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,169kWh/year
Tilt
35°facing south
10 kW
11,690kWh/year
Row pitch
13.77m · GCR 0.35
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,110 / 460Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Rodnyky

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 47.8° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Запоріжжя, 245 km: snow 1,110 Pa, wind 460 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

37Jan53Feb90Mar117Apr137May143Jun147Jul151Aug125Sep91Oct48Nov29Dec

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

February: 53 against 55 in the oblast, 3.6% less.

Rodnyky: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,845755145
1011,6901,510290
1517,5352,265435

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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