Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Cerdanyola del Vallès: 1,574 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 38°, 2° west of south (PVGIS). 2.5% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #109 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 41.3% more here.

Cerdanyola del Vallès is in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. Population 58,747 (GeoNames). 88 m above sea level. 5 km away: Sant Cugat del Vallès, the nearest bigger city, 1,552 kWh/kWp — 1.4% more here. 7.33 m between rows, pitch 11.10 m, GCR 0.43 (latitude 41.5°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,574kWh/year
Tilt
38°2° west of south
10 kW
15,743kWh/year
Row pitch
11.10m · GCR 0.43
Rank in the country
109of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Cerdanyola del Vallès

Latitude 41.5°: 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

114Jan113Feb139Mar140Apr153May151Jun157Jul151Aug131Sep118Oct102Nov106Dec

July: 157 kWh/kWp, November: 102 — 1.5 times less.

September: 131 against the median of 143 for the main cities of Spain, 8.4% less.

Cerdanyola del Vallès: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
57,872785510
1015,7431,5701,020
1523,6152,3551,530

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.