Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stepove, Alchevskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Stepove: 1,152 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #34 of 86 in the rayon, #409 of 964 in the oblast.

Alchevsk, the rayon centre, is 22 km away. 114 m above sea level. 22 km away: Alchevsk, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,149. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 250 km. 10.66 m between rows, pitch 14.53 m (latitude 48.6°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,152kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,516kWh/year
Row pitch
14.53m · 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: Stepove

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

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

36Jan57Feb90Mar116Apr139May143Jun145Jul147Aug123Sep86Oct44Nov27Dec

August: 147 kWh/kWp, December: 27 — 5.4 times less.

January: 36 against 39 in the oblast, 7.7% less.

Stepove: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,758735135
1011,5161,470270
1517,2742,205405

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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