Spain: solar plant site data

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

Motril: 1,742 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 35°, 2° west of south (PVGIS). 7.8% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #9 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 56.4% more here.

Motril is in the province of Granada, Andalusia. Population 60,592 (GeoNames). 34 m above sea level. 49 km away: Granada, the nearest bigger city, 1,673 kWh/kWp — 4.1% more here. 5.47 m between rows, pitch 9.39 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 36.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,742kWh/year
Tilt
35°2° west of south
10 kW
17,420kWh/year
Row pitch
9.39m · GCR 0.51
Rank in the country
9of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Motril

Latitude 36.8°: 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

127Jan128Feb150Mar154Apr163May161Jun165Jul163Aug150Sep139Oct121Nov120Dec

July: 165 kWh/kWp, December: 120 — 1.4 times less.

November: 121 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 17.5% more.

Motril: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,710825600
1017,4201,6501,200
1526,1302,4751,800

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.