Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Kovbashchyna, Korostenskyi Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast

Kovbashchyna: 1,100 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 38° facing south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,104). #189 of 560 in the rayon, #1082 of 1700 in the oblast.

Korosten, the rayon centre, is 16 km away. 196 m above sea level. 16 km away: Korosten, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,105. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Житомир, 67 km. 13.22 m between rows, pitch 16.99 m (latitude 50.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,100kWh/year
Tilt
38°facing south
10 kW
10,996kWh/year
Row pitch
16.99m · GCR 0.28
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,460 / 460Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Kovbashchyna

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 50.8° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Житомир, 67 km: snow 1,460 Pa, wind 460 Pa.

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  • Snow and wind check
  • Drawings and estimate

Yield by month

34Jan55Feb89Mar117Apr133May142Jun140Jul136Aug111Sep80Oct35Nov27Dec

June: 142 kWh/kWp, December: 27 — 5.3 times less.

March: 89 against 91 in the oblast, 2.2% less.

Kovbashchyna: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJuneDecember
55,498710135
1010,9961,420270
1516,4942,130405

Snow and wind: Житомир

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Zhytomyr: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 350 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 52,606 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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