Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Znamianka, Alchevskyi Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Znamianka: 1,152 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,150). #21 of 86 in the rayon, #368 of 964 in the oblast.

Alchevsk, the rayon centre, is 32 km away. 78 m above sea level. 25 km away: Novoaidar, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,155. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Харків, 238 km. 10.75 m between rows, pitch 14.62 m (latitude 48.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,152kWh/year
Tilt
36°facing south
10 kW
11,524kWh/year
Row pitch
14.62m · 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: Znamianka

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

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

39Jan58Feb91Mar116Apr138May143Jun145Jul147Aug122Sep85Oct43Nov26Dec

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

February: 58 against 56 in the oblast, 3.6% more.

Znamianka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearAugustDecember
55,762735130
1011,5241,470260
1517,2862,205390

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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