Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Chiclana de la Frontera: 1,730 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 33°, 3° west of south (PVGIS). 7.1% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #13 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 55.3% more here.

Chiclana de la Frontera is in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Population 83,831 (GeoNames). 42 m above sea level. 8 km away: San Fernando, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,737 kWh/kWp. 5.12 m between rows, pitch 9.13 m, GCR 0.52 (latitude 36.4°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,730kWh/year
Tilt
33°3° west of south
10 kW
17,295kWh/year
Row pitch
9.13m · GCR 0.52
Rank in the country
13of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Chiclana de la Frontera

Latitude 36.4°: 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

120Jan121Feb145Mar152Apr166May163Jun174Jul170Aug152Sep137Oct115Nov113Dec

July: 174 kWh/kWp, December: 113 — 1.5 times less.

November: 115 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 11.7% more.

Chiclana de la Frontera: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,648870565
1017,2951,7401,130
1525,9432,6101,695

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.