Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Karakash, Rovenkivskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Karakash: 1,154 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #60 of 96 in the rayon, #260 of 964 in the oblast.

Rovenky, the rayon centre, is 20 km away. 266 m above sea level. 20 km away: Rovenky, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,157. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 294 km. 10.31 m between rows, pitch 14.18 m (latitude 48.1°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,154kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,544kWh/year
Row pitch
14.18m · GCR 0.34
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,600 / 430Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Karakash

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.1° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 294 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

40Jan57Feb86Mar114Apr136May142Jun146Jul148Aug124Sep88Oct46Nov28Dec

August: 148 kWh/kWp, December: 28 — 5.3 times less.

December: 28 against 26 in the oblast, 7.7% more.

Karakash: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,772740140
1011,5441,480280
1517,3162,220420

Snow and wind: Харків

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kharkiv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 359 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 53,991 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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