Spain: solar plant site data

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

Arrecife: 1,780 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 27°, 8° west of south (PVGIS). 10.2% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #2 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 59.8% more here.

Arrecife is in the province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Population 61,351 (GeoNames). 20 m above sea level. 206 km away: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the nearest bigger city, 1,611 kWh/kWp — 10.5% more here. 3.17 m between rows, pitch 7.43 m, GCR 0.64 (latitude 29.0°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,780kWh/year
Tilt
27°8° west of south
10 kW
17,801kWh/year
Row pitch
7.43m · GCR 0.64
Rank in the country
2of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Arrecife

Latitude 29.0°: 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

125Jan127Feb162Mar160Apr164May157Jun171Jul170Aug153Sep143Oct123Nov125Dec

July: 171 kWh/kWp, November: 123 — 1.4 times less.

December: 125 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 21.4% more.

Arrecife: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
58,901855615
1017,8011,7101,230
1526,7022,5651,845

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

Spain: all cities and regions

Sources

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