Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Popasna, Siverskodonetskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Popasna: 1,154 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #20 of 100 in the rayon, #286 of 964 in the oblast.

Siverskodonetsk, the rayon centre, is 36 km away. 254 m above sea level. 28 km away: Bakhmut, the nearest bigger centre, 1,146 — 0.7% more here. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 217 km. 10.67 m between rows, pitch 14.54 m (latitude 48.6°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,154kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,540kWh/year
Row pitch
14.54m · GCR 0.33
T_min
-42 °Cregion II, south-eastern
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,600 / 430Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Popasna

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.6° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 217 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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

Yield by month

40Jan60Feb90Mar114Apr137May143Jun145Jul147Aug121Sep87Oct44Nov26Dec

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

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

Popasna: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,770735130
1011,5401,470260
1517,3102,205390

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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