Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Zholobok, Siverskodonetskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Zholobok: 1,151 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #42 of 100 in the rayon, #420 of 964 in the oblast.

Siverskodonetsk, the rayon centre, is 30 km away. 179 m above sea level. 28 km away: Alchevsk, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,149. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 228 km. 10.73 m between rows, pitch 14.60 m (latitude 48.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,151kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,514kWh/year
Row pitch
14.60m · 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: Zholobok

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.7° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Харків, 228 km: snow 1,600 Pa, wind 430 Pa.

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

Yield by month

38Jan59Feb91Mar115Apr138May143Jun145Jul147Aug121Sep84Oct43Nov26Dec

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

February: 59 against 56 in the oblast, 5.4% more.

Zholobok: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,757735130
1011,5141,470260
1517,2712,205390

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

How these numbers are computed

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