Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Orlivka, Starobilskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Orlivka: 1,148 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 1° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #18 of 201 in the rayon, #532 of 964 in the oblast.

Starobilsk, the rayon centre, is 26 km away. 108 m above sea level. 23 km away: Siverskodonetsk, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,150. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 207 km. 11.28 m between rows, pitch 15.10 m (latitude 49.1°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,148kWh/year
Tilt
37°1° east of south
10 kW
11,483kWh/year
Row pitch
15.10m · 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: Orlivka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.1° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 207 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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

Yield by month

41Jan60Feb91Mar116Apr137May141Jun144Jul146Aug121Sep84Oct42Nov25Dec

August: 146 kWh/kWp, December: 25 — 5.8 times less.

February: 60 against 56 in the oblast, 7.1% more.

Orlivka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,742730125
1011,4831,460250
1517,2252,190375

Snow and wind: Харків

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Kharkiv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 385 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 51,876 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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