Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kocharuvka, Chortkivskyi Raion, Ternopil Oblast

Kocharuvka: 1,131 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° facing south (PVGIS). 3.5% above the oblast median (1,093). #17 of 296 in the rayon, #17 of 744 in the oblast.

Chortkiv, the rayon centre, is 49 km away. 136 m above sea level. 20 km away: Zastavna, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,131. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Чернівці, 38 km. 10.91 m between rows, pitch 14.73 m (latitude 48.6°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,131kWh/year
Tilt
37°facing south
10 kW
11,308kWh/year
Row pitch
14.73m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-38 °Cregion IIIA, Carpathian
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,320 / 500Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kocharuvka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 48.6° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Чернівці, 38 km: snow 1,320 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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

Yield by month

44Jan58Feb96Mar118Apr131May131Jun139Jul136Aug113Sep86Oct43Nov35Dec

July: 139 kWh/kWp, December: 35 — 4.0 times less.

January: 44 against 34 in the oblast, 29.4% more.

Kocharuvka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,654695175
1011,3081,390350
1516,9622,085525

Snow and wind: Чернівці

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Chernivtsi: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 412 kg of steel, 16 piles, materials ≈ 54,638 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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