Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Zapokhar, Kosivskyi Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Zapokhar: 1,029 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 25° east of south (PVGIS). 6.2% below the oblast median (1,097). #37 of 41 in the rayon, #652 of 700 in the oblast.

Kosiv, the rayon centre, is 15 km away. 481 m above sea level. 10 km away: Vyzhnytsya, the nearest bigger centre, 1,076 — 4.4% less here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Чернівці, 65 km. 10.59 m between rows, pitch 14.41 m (latitude 48.2°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,029kWh/year
Tilt
37°25° east of south
10 kW
10,290kWh/year
Row pitch
14.41m · 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: Zapokhar

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.2° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Чернівці, 65 km: snow 1,320 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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

Yield by month

44Jan56Feb87Mar104Apr116May118Jun127Jul124Aug100Sep76Oct44Nov34Dec

July: 127 kWh/kWp, December: 34 — 3.7 times less.

October: 76 against 86 in the oblast, 11.6% less.

Zapokhar: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,145635170
1010,2901,270340
1515,4351,905510

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