Spain: solar plant site data

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

Estepona: 1,687 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 33°, 4° west of south (PVGIS). 4.5% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #22 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 51.5% more here.

Estepona is in the province of Málaga, Andalusia. Population 67,012 (GeoNames). 69 m above sea level. 25 km away: Marbella, the nearest bigger city, 1,712 kWh/kWp — 1.4% less here. 5.13 m between rows, pitch 9.14 m, GCR 0.52 (latitude 36.4°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,687kWh/year
Tilt
33°4° west of south
10 kW
16,873kWh/year
Row pitch
9.14m · GCR 0.52
Rank in the country
22of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Estepona

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

116Jan114Feb140Mar146Apr164May165Jun172Jul169Aug150Sep134Oct112Nov105Dec

July: 172 kWh/kWp, December: 105 — 1.6 times less.

November: 112 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 8.7% more.

Estepona: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,437860525
1016,8731,7201,050
1525,3102,5801,575

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.