Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kovalivka, Chortkivskyi Raion, Ternopil Oblast

Kovalivka: 1,089 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 36° 4° west of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,093). #291 of 296 in the rayon, #422 of 744 in the oblast.

Chortkiv, the rayon centre, is 45 km away. 333 m above sea level. 16 km away: Pidhaytsi, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,094. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Івано-Франківськ, 43 km. 11.06 m between rows, pitch 14.93 m (latitude 49.1°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,089kWh/year
Tilt
36°4° west of south
10 kW
10,891kWh/year
Row pitch
14.93m · GCR 0.32
T_min
-38 °Cregion IIIA, Carpathian
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,410 / 500Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kovalivka

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 49.1° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Івано-Франківськ, 43 km: snow 1,410 Pa, wind 500 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

34Jan52Feb93Mar116Apr128May129Jun138Jul135Aug110Sep85Oct40Nov29Dec

July: 138 kWh/kWp, December: 29 — 4.8 times less.

November: 40 against 38 in the oblast, 5.3% more.

Kovalivka: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,446690145
1010,8911,380290
1516,3362,070435

Snow and wind: Івано-Франківськ

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Ivano-Frankivsk: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 410 kg of steel, 16 piles, materials ≈ 54,212 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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