Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Ustia, Stryiskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast

Ustia: 1,089 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 38° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,084). #149 of 286 in the rayon, #562 of 1532 in the oblast.

Stryi, the rayon centre, is 29 km away. 254 m above sea level. 29 km away: Stryi, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,085. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Львів, 37 km. 11.91 m between rows, pitch 15.68 m (latitude 49.5°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,089kWh/year
Tilt
38°facing south
10 kW
10,889kWh/year
Row pitch
15.68m · GCR 0.31
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,310 / 520Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Ustia

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.5° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Львів, 37 km: snow 1,310 Pa, wind 520 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

42Jan57Feb93Mar114Apr123May126Jun133Jul131Aug108Sep84Oct45Nov33Dec

July: 133 kWh/kWp, December: 33 — 4.0 times less.

January: 42 against 39 in the oblast, 7.7% more.

Ustia: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,445665165
1010,8891,330330
1516,3341,995495

Snow and wind: Львів

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Lviv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 376 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 50,491 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.