Spain: solar plant site data
Solar power plant in Arona, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing
Arona: 1,576 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 26°, 20° east of south (PVGIS). 2.4% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #106 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 41.5% more here.
Arona is in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. Population 78,614 (GeoNames). 632 m above sea level. 56 km away: San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the nearest bigger city, 1,760 kWh/kWp — 10.4% less here. 2.97 m between rows, pitch 7.27 m, GCR 0.66 (latitude 28.1°).
- Yield of 1 kWp
- 1,576kWh/year
- Tilt
- 26°20° east of south
- 10 kW
- 15,763kWh/year
- Row pitch
- 7.27m · GCR 0.66
- Rank in the country
- 106of 147 cities
Ground frame designer
A ground frame for a solar plant: Arona
Latitude 28.1°: 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.
- No sign-up
- Snow and wind check
- Drawings and estimate
Yield by month
July: 167 kWh/kWp, November: 107 — 1.6 times less.
December: 117 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 13.6% more.
| kWp | A year | July | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7,882 | 835 | 535 |
| 10 | 15,763 | 1,670 | 1,070 |
| 15 | 23,645 | 2,505 | 1,605 |
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
Sources
- PVGIS © European Union, 2001–2026 — yield, tilt and azimuth, data as of 2026-10-10
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — coordinates, elevation, population and divisions (changed)
- Where to take snow and wind loads from: CTE DB SE-AE
- How these numbers are computed
Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.