Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Sukha Balka, Bohodukhivskyi Raion, Kharkiv Oblast

Sukha Balka: 1,142 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 1° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,142). #54 of 354 in the rayon, #918 of 1769 in the oblast.

Bohodukhiv, the rayon centre, is 56 km away. 133 m above sea level. 29 km away: Chutove, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,139. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 61 km. 11.77 m between rows, pitch 15.59 m (latitude 49.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,142kWh/year
Tilt
37°1° east of south
10 kW
11,415kWh/year
Row pitch
15.59m · GCR 0.31
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,600 / 430Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Sukha Balka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.7° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 61 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

37Jan56Feb93Mar115Apr137May143Jun148Jul147Aug119Sep84Oct40Nov23Dec

July: 148 kWh/kWp, December: 23 — 6.4 times less.

January: 37 against 39 in the oblast, 5.1% less.

Sukha Balka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,708740115
1011,4151,480230
1517,1232,220345

Snow and wind: Харків

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kharkiv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 385 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 51,876 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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