Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Balakiry, Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Balakiry: 1,100 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,100). #230 of 576 in the rayon, #551 of 1109 in the oblast.

Khmelnytskyi, the rayon centre, is 34 km away. 312 m above sea level. 9 km away: Yarmolyntsi, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,100. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Хмельницький, 35 km. 11.08 m between rows, pitch 14.95 m (latitude 49.2°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,100kWh/year
Tilt
36°2° east of south
10 kW
11,002kWh/year
Row pitch
14.95m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,340 / 500Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Balakiry

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.2° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Хмельницький, 35 km: snow 1,340 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

31Jan48Feb88Mar117Apr134May137Jun141Jul138Aug114Sep84Oct37Nov31Dec

July: 141 kWh/kWp, January: 31 — 4.5 times less.

December: 31 against 29 in the oblast, 6.9% more.

Balakiry: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyJanuary
55,501705155
1011,0021,410310
1516,5032,115465

Snow and wind: Хмельницький

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Khmelnytskyi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 415 kg of steel, 16 piles, materials ≈ 55,054 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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