Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kopani, Starobilskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Kopani: 1,148 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #23 of 201 in the rayon, #546 of 964 in the oblast.

Starobilsk, the rayon centre, is 36 km away. 183 m above sea level. 36 km away: Starobilsk, the nearest bigger centre, 1,140 — 0.6% more here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 243 km. 11.15 m between rows, pitch 15.02 m (latitude 49.2°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,148kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,475kWh/year
Row pitch
15.02m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,600 / 430Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kopani

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.2° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 243 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

43Jan56Feb86Mar115Apr139May144Jun146Jul147Aug121Sep84Oct41Nov26Dec

August: 147 kWh/kWp, December: 26 — 5.7 times less.

January: 43 against 39 in the oblast, 10.3% more.

Kopani: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,738735130
1011,4751,470260
1517,2132,205390

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

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