Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Melnia, Konotopskyi Raion, Sumy Oblast

Melnia: 1,112 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 38° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,110). #15 of 318 in the rayon, #598 of 1534 in the oblast.

Konotop, the rayon centre, is 15 km away. 125 m above sea level. 15 km away: Konotop, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,110. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Чернігів, 127 km. 13.79 m between rows, pitch 17.56 m (latitude 51.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,112kWh/year
Tilt
38°2° east of south
10 kW
11,124kWh/year
Row pitch
17.56m · GCR 0.27
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,720 / 410Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Melnia

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 51.3° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Чернігів, 127 km: snow 1,720 Pa, wind 410 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

33Jan59Feb98Mar117Apr140May143Jun142Jul139Aug109Sep74Oct34Nov24Dec

June: 143 kWh/kWp, December: 24 — 6.0 times less.

January: 33 against 36 in the oblast, 8.3% less.

Melnia: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJuneDecember
55,562715120
1011,1241,430240
1516,6862,145360

Snow and wind: Чернігів

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Chernihiv: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 389 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 52,358 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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