Spain: solar plant site data

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

Dos Hermanas: 1,672 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 34°, 1° west of south (PVGIS). 3.5% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #28 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 50.1% more here.

Dos Hermanas is in the province of Seville, Andalusia. Population 122,943 (GeoNames). 45 m above sea level. 12 km away: Seville, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,672 kWh/kWp. 5.46 m between rows, pitch 9.43 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 37.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,672kWh/year
Tilt
34°1° west of south
10 kW
16,720kWh/year
Row pitch
9.43m · GCR 0.51
Rank in the country
28of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Dos Hermanas

Latitude 37.3°: 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

120Jan118Feb142Mar144Apr157May156Jun166Jul163Aug147Sep133Oct114Nov113Dec

July: 166 kWh/kWp, December: 113 — 1.5 times less.

November: 114 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 10.7% more.

Dos Hermanas: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,360830565
1016,7201,6601,130
1525,0802,4901,695

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

Spain: all cities and regions

Sources

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