Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Stepove, Sumskyi Raion, Sumy Oblast

Stepove: 1,115 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,110). #183 of 466 in the rayon, #513 of 1534 in the oblast.

Sumy, the rayon centre, is 47 km away. 165 m above sea level. 43 km away: Hadyach, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,120. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Суми, 46 km. 12.81 m between rows, pitch 16.63 m (latitude 50.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,115kWh/year
Tilt
37°2° east of south
10 kW
11,146kWh/year
Row pitch
16.63m · GCR 0.29
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,670 / 420Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Stepove

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 50.7° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Суми, 46 km: snow 1,670 Pa, wind 420 Pa.

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

Yield by month

36Jan58Feb91Mar115Apr140May142Jun145Jul143Aug110Sep77Oct35Nov23Dec

July: 145 kWh/kWp, December: 23 — 6.3 times less.

March: 91 against 95 in the oblast, 4.2% less.

Stepove: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,573725115
1011,1461,450230
1516,7192,175345

Snow and wind: Суми

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Sumy: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 385 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 51,876 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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