Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Orikhove, Starobilskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Orikhove: 1,143 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). 0.6% below the oblast median (1,150). #68 of 201 in the rayon, #632 of 964 in the oblast.

Starobilsk, the rayon centre, is 21 km away. 156 m above sea level. 21 km away: Starobilsk, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,140. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 229 km. 11.15 m between rows, pitch 15.02 m (latitude 49.2°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,143kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,433kWh/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: Orikhove

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, 229 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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

Yield by month

40Jan55Feb86Mar116Apr138May144Jun147Jul148Aug122Sep84Oct40Nov25Dec

August: 148 kWh/kWp, December: 25 — 5.9 times less.

November: 40 against 43 in the oblast, 7.0% less.

Orikhove: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,717740125
1011,4331,480250
1517,1502,220375

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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