Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

San Bartolomé de Tirajana: 1,770 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 25°, 18° east of south (PVGIS). 9.6% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #4 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 58.9% more here.

San Bartolomé de Tirajana is in the province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Population 53,588 (GeoNames). 902 m above sea level. 4 km away: Santa Lucía de Tirajana, the nearest bigger city, 1,749 kWh/kWp — 1.2% more here. 2.84 m between rows, pitch 7.18 m, GCR 0.67 (latitude 27.9°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,770kWh/year
Tilt
25°18° east of south
10 kW
17,699kWh/year
Row pitch
7.18m · GCR 0.67
Rank in the country
4of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: San Bartolomé de Tirajana

Latitude 27.9°: 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

125Jan124Feb158Mar152Apr165May161Jun180Jul177Aug150Sep136Oct121Nov121Dec

July: 180 kWh/kWp, November: 121 — 1.5 times less.

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

San Bartolomé de Tirajana: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
58,850900605
1017,6991,8001,210
1526,5492,7001,815

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.

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Sources

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