Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Alcalá de Guadaira, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Alcalá de Guadaira: 1,669 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 34°, 1° west of south (PVGIS). 3.3% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #31 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 49.8% more here.

Alcalá de Guadaira is in the province of Seville, Andalusia. Population 70,155 (GeoNames). 71 m above sea level. 9 km away: Dos Hermanas, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,672 kWh/kWp. 5.47 m between rows, pitch 9.44 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 37.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,669kWh/year
Tilt
34°1° west of south
10 kW
16,685kWh/year
Row pitch
9.44m · GCR 0.51
Rank in the country
31of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Alcalá de Guadaira

Latitude 37.3°: the tilt and the row pitch follow it. Enter the snow and wind for Spain in the designer, by the national annex to the Eurocode.

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Yield by month

119Jan118Feb141Mar144Apr157May156Jun166Jul164Aug147Sep133Oct113Nov112Dec

July: 166 kWh/kWp, December: 112 — 1.5 times less.

November: 113 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 9.7% more.

Alcalá de Guadaira: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,343830560
1016,6851,6601,120
1525,0282,4901,680

Snow and wind loads

Snow and wind loads for a site in Spain follow CTE DB SE-AE (Spain’s Código Técnico de la Edificación) and, where the Eurocodes are applied, UNE-EN 1991-1-3 and UNE-EN 1991-1-4 with the Spanish National Annex. Solispec computes loads by the Ukrainian DBN V.1.2-2 only, so this page shows no snow or wind values for Spain: enter the characteristic values from these documents in the designer’s «Own snow S0» and «Own wind W0» fields.

The frame calculation for such a site is preliminary: before installation it must be checked by an engineer who works to the country’s standards.

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Sources

Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.