Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Birky, Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast

Birky: 1,152 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,157). #234 of 254 in the rayon, #564 of 708 in the oblast.

Kropyvnytskyi, the rayon centre, is 49 km away. 120 m above sea level. 5 km away: Oleksandrivka, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,152. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 49 km. 11.17 m between rows, pitch 14.99 m (latitude 48.9°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,152kWh/year
Tilt
37°2° east of south
10 kW
11,521kWh/year
Row pitch
14.99m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,230 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Birky

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.9° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 49 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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

Yield by month

38Jan56Feb95Mar118Apr138May142Jun147Jul144Aug117Sep87Oct40Nov29Dec

July: 147 kWh/kWp, December: 29 — 5.1 times less.

January: 38 against 35 in the oblast, 8.6% more.

Birky: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,761735145
1011,5211,470290
1517,2822,205435

Snow and wind: Кропивницький

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kropyvnytskyi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 372 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 48,082 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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