Solar plant: site data

Solar power plant in Lypne, Zhytomyrskyi Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast

Lypne: 1,104 kWh per kWp a year, tilt 37° 2° east of south (PVGIS). Exactly the oblast median (1,104). #530 of 686 in the rayon, #898 of 1700 in the oblast.

Zhytomyr, the rayon centre, is 67 km away. 261 m above sea level. 29 km away: Polonne, the nearest bigger centre, the same 1,103. Snow and wind from the nearest regional centre in the DBN — Житомир, 65 km. 12.07 m between rows, pitch 15.89 m (latitude 50.0°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,104kWh/year
Tilt
37°2° east of south
10 kW
11,035kWh/year
Row pitch
15.89m · GCR 0.30
T_min
-40 °Cregion I, north-western
Snow S₀ / wind W₀
1,460 / 460Pa

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Lypne

The designer opens with this place’s coordinates, latitude 50.0° for the row spacing and the DBN loads of the nearest regional centre — Житомир, 65 km: snow 1,460 Pa, wind 460 Pa.

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

Yield by month

31Jan50Feb87Mar120Apr135May140Jun142Jul138Aug112Sep84Oct36Nov29Dec

July: 142 kWh/kWp, December: 29 — 4.9 times less.

February: 50 against 56 in the oblast, 10.7% less.

Lypne: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
55,518710145
1011,0351,420290
1516,5532,130435

Snow and wind: Житомир

Example: a 10 kW ground frame

For the loads of Zhytomyr: 11.16 kWp, 18 panels, 376 kg of steel, 12 piles, materials ≈ 50,491 UAH.

The whole frame: drawing, BOM, checks

How these numbers are computed

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