Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Roquetas de Mar, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Roquetas de Mar: 1,779 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 35°, 4° west of south (PVGIS). 10.1% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #3 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 59.7% more here.

Roquetas de Mar is in the province of Almería, Andalusia. Population 94,925 (GeoNames). 12 m above sea level. 16 km away: Almería, the nearest bigger city, 1,723 kWh/kWp — 3.3% more here. 5.47 m between rows, pitch 9.39 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 36.8°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,779kWh/year
Tilt
35°4° west of south
10 kW
17,789kWh/year
Row pitch
9.39m · GCR 0.51
Rank in the country
3of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Roquetas de Mar

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

126Jan129Feb152Mar159Apr168May168Jun173Jul171Aug153Sep140Oct120Nov120Dec

July: 173 kWh/kWp, November: 120 — 1.4 times less.

November: 120 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 16.5% more.

Roquetas de Mar: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
58,895865600
1017,7891,7301,200
1526,6842,5951,800

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

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Sources

Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.