Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stari Kuty, Kosivskyi Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Stari Kuty: 1,112 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 38° 5° east of south (PVGIS). 1.4% above the oblast median (1,097). #12 of 41 in the rayon, #173 of 700 in the oblast.

Kosiv, the rayon centre, is 7 km away. 381 m above sea level. 7 km away: Kosiv, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,110. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Чернівці, 58 km. 10.90 m between rows, pitch 14.67 m (latitude 48.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,112kWh/year
Tilt
38°5° east of south
10 kW
11,123kWh/year
Row pitch
14.67m · GCR 0.33
T_min
-38 °Cregion IIIA, Carpathian
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,320 / 500Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Stari Kuty

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.3° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Чернівці, 58 km: snow 1,320 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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

Yield by month

50Jan63Feb95Mar111Apr122May119Jun131Jul128Aug108Sep89Oct55Nov40Dec

July: 131 kWh/kWp, December: 40 — 3.3 times less.

November: 55 against 48 in the oblast, 14.6% more.

Stari Kuty: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,562655200
1011,1231,310400
1516,6851,965600

Snow and wind: Чернівці

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Chernivtsi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 412 kg of steel, 16 piles, materials ≈ 54,638 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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