Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Ustia, Chortkivskyi Raion, Ternopil Oblast

Ustia: 1,126 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 2° east of south (PVGIS). 3.1% above the oblast median (1,093). #51 of 296 in the rayon, #51 of 744 in the oblast.

Chortkiv, the rayon centre, is 50 km away. 135 m above sea level. 21 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
1,126kWh/year
Tilt
37°2° east of south
10 kW
11,259kWh/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: Ustia

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.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

43Jan57Feb96Mar119Apr131May131Jun140Jul136Aug113Sep85Oct42Nov32Dec

July: 140 kWh/kWp, December: 32 — 4.4 times less.

January: 43 against 34 in the oblast, 26.5% more.

Ustia: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,630700160
1011,2591,400320
1516,8892,100480

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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