Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Ben’kovtse, Ivano-Frankivskyi Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ben’kovtse: 1,096 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 1° west of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,097). #159 of 244 in the rayon, #367 of 700 in the oblast.

Ivano-Frankivsk, the rayon centre, is 61 km away. 265 m above sea level. 12 km away: Rohatyn, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,094. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Львів, 54 km. 11.59 m between rows, pitch 15.41 m (latitude 49.4°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,096kWh/year
Tilt
37°1° west of south
10 kW
10,957kWh/year
Row pitch
15.41m · GCR 0.31
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,310 / 520Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Ben’kovtse

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.4° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Львів, 54 km: snow 1,310 Pa, wind 520 Pa.

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

Yield by month

38Jan55Feb96Mar116Apr127May129Jun136Jul133Aug109Sep84Oct42Nov30Dec

July: 136 kWh/kWp, December: 30 — 4.5 times less.

December: 30 against 38 in the oblast, 21.1% less.

Ben’kovtse: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,479680150
1010,9571,360300
1516,4362,040450

Snow and wind: Львів

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Lviv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 376 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 50,491 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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