Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in el Prat de Llobregat, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

el Prat de Llobregat: 1,594 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 38°, 3° west of south (PVGIS). 1.3% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #94 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 43.1% more here.

el Prat de Llobregat is in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. Population 63,418 (GeoNames). 9 m above sea level. 3 km away: Cornellà de Llobregat, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,594 kWh/kWp. 7.27 m between rows, pitch 11.04 m, GCR 0.43 (latitude 41.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,594kWh/year
Tilt
38°3° west of south
10 kW
15,936kWh/year
Row pitch
11.04m · GCR 0.43
Rank in the country
94of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: el Prat de Llobregat

Latitude 41.3°: 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

110Jan112Feb141Mar144Apr157May156Jun161Jul154Aug134Sep119Oct102Nov102Dec

July: 161 kWh/kWp, November: 102 — 1.6 times less.

October: 119 against the median of 127 for the main cities of Spain, 6.3% less.

el Prat de Llobregat: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
57,968805510
1015,9361,6101,020
1523,9042,4151,530

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.