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.
- No sign-up
- Snow and wind check
- Drawings and estimate
Yield by month
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.
| kWp | A year | July | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8,901 | 855 | 615 |
| 10 | 17,801 | 1,710 | 1,230 |
| 15 | 26,702 | 2,565 | 1,845 |
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
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.