Spain: solar plant site data

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

Leganés: 1,645 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 37°, 4° east of south (PVGIS). 1.8% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #45 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 47.6% more here.

Leganés is in Community of Madrid. Population 188,425 (GeoNames). 672 m above sea level. 5 km away: Fuenlabrada, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,645 kWh/kWp. 6.76 m between rows, pitch 10.58 m, GCR 0.45 (latitude 40.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,645kWh/year
Tilt
37°4° east of south
10 kW
16,446kWh/year
Row pitch
10.58m · GCR 0.45
Rank in the country
45of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Leganés

Latitude 40.3°: 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

109Jan116Feb142Mar146Apr156May155Jun168Jul166Aug149Sep130Oct105Nov104Dec

July: 168 kWh/kWp, December: 104 — 1.6 times less.

September: 149 against the median of 143 for the main cities of Spain, 4.2% more.

Leganés: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,223840520
1016,4461,6801,040
1524,6692,5201,560

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.