Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stepove, Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast

Stepove: 1,168 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 4° east of south (PVGIS). 0.9% above the oblast median (1,157). #62 of 254 in the rayon, #117 of 708 in the oblast.

Kropyvnytskyi, the rayon centre, is 58 km away. 98 m above sea level. 7 km away: Ustynivka, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,168. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Кропивницький, 59 km. 10.21 m between rows, pitch 14.08 m (latitude 48.0°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,168kWh/year
Tilt
36°4° east of south
10 kW
11,675kWh/year
Row pitch
14.08m · GCR 0.34
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,230 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Stepove

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.0° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Кропивницький, 59 km: snow 1,230 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

36Jan52Feb93Mar121Apr138May142Jun153Jul148Aug123Sep92Oct43Nov28Dec

July: 153 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.5 times less.

November: 43 against 41 in the oblast, 4.9% more.

Stepove: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,838765140
1011,6751,530280
1517,5132,295420

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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