Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Santa Coloma de Gramenet: 1,569 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 38°, 2° west of south (PVGIS). 2.9% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #112 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 40.9% more here.

Santa Coloma de Gramenet is in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. Population 118,821 (GeoNames). 39 m above sea level. 3 km away: Badalona, the nearest bigger city, 1,551 kWh/kWp — 1.2% more here. 7.31 m between rows, pitch 11.08 m, GCR 0.43 (latitude 41.5°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,569kWh/year
Tilt
38°2° west of south
10 kW
15,693kWh/year
Row pitch
11.08m · GCR 0.43
Rank in the country
112of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Latitude 41.5°: 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

111Jan112Feb138Mar140Apr153May152Jun159Jul152Aug132Sep117Oct101Nov103Dec

July: 159 kWh/kWp, November: 101 — 1.6 times less.

October: 117 against the median of 127 for the main cities of Spain, 7.9% less.

Santa Coloma de Gramenet: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
57,847795505
1015,6931,5901,010
1523,5402,3851,515

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.