Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Aranjuez, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Aranjuez: 1,643 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 36°, 4° east of south (PVGIS). 1.7% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #47 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 47.5% more here.

Aranjuez is in Community of Madrid. Population 54,055 (GeoNames). 508 m above sea level. 19 km away: Valdemoro, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,645 kWh/kWp. 6.51 m between rows, pitch 10.38 m, GCR 0.46 (latitude 40.0°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,643kWh/year
Tilt
36°4° east of south
10 kW
16,434kWh/year
Row pitch
10.38m · GCR 0.46
Rank in the country
47of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Aranjuez

Latitude 40.0°: 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

107Jan115Feb141Mar147Apr156May155Jun169Jul166Aug149Sep129Oct105Nov103Dec

July: 169 kWh/kWp, December: 103 — 1.6 times less.

September: 149 against the median of 143 for the main cities of Spain, 4.2% more.

Aranjuez: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,217845515
1016,4341,6901,030
1524,6512,5351,545

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.

Nearby cities

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Sources

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