Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Talavera de la Reina, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Talavera de la Reina: 1,630 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 36°, 1° east of south (PVGIS). 0.9% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #57 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 46.3% more here.

Talavera de la Reina is in the province of Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha. Population 88,856 (GeoNames). 380 m above sea level. 91 km away: Móstoles, the nearest bigger city, 1,643 kWh/kWp — 0.8% less here. 6.49 m between rows, pitch 10.36 m, GCR 0.46 (latitude 40.0°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,630kWh/year
Tilt
36°1° east of south
10 kW
16,297kWh/year
Row pitch
10.36m · GCR 0.46
Rank in the country
57of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Talavera de la Reina

Latitude 40.0°: 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

106Jan115Feb140Mar146Apr156May155Jun169Jul166Aug150Sep129Oct102Nov96Dec

July: 169 kWh/kWp, December: 96 — 1.8 times less.

December: 96 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 6.8% less.

Talavera de la Reina: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,149845480
1016,2971,690960
1524,4462,5351,440

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.