Spain: solar plant site data

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

Jerez de la Frontera: 1,711 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 34°, 2° west of south (PVGIS). 5.9% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #17 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 53.6% more here.

Jerez de la Frontera is in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Population 212,879 (GeoNames). 53 m above sea level. 79 km away: Seville, the nearest bigger city, 1,672 kWh/kWp — 2.4% more here. 5.32 m between rows, pitch 9.29 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 36.7°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,711kWh/year
Tilt
34°2° west of south
10 kW
17,109kWh/year
Row pitch
9.29m · GCR 0.51
Rank in the country
17of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

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

Latitude 36.7°: 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

119Jan120Feb144Mar151Apr164May161Jun171Jul167Aug150Sep136Oct114Nov113Dec

July: 171 kWh/kWp, December: 113 — 1.5 times less.

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

Jerez de la Frontera: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,555855565
1017,1091,7101,130
1525,6642,5651,695

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.