Spain: solar plant site data
Solar power plant in Terrassa, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing
Terrassa: 1,584 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 39°, 1° east of south (PVGIS). 1.9% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #102 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 42.2% more here.
Terrassa is in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. Population 218,535 (GeoNames). 302 m above sea level. 23 km away: Barcelona, the nearest bigger city, 1,572 kWh/kWp — 0.8% more here. 7.52 m between rows, pitch 11.24 m, GCR 0.43 (latitude 41.6°).
- Yield of 1 kWp
- 1,584kWh/year
- Tilt
- 39°1° east of south
- 10 kW
- 15,843kWh/year
- Row pitch
- 11.24m · GCR 0.43
- Rank in the country
- 102of 147 cities
Ground frame designer
A ground frame for a solar plant: Terrassa
Latitude 41.6°: 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.
- No sign-up
- Snow and wind check
- Drawings and estimate
Yield by month
July: 158 kWh/kWp, November: 105 — 1.5 times less.
August: 150 against the median of 163 for the main cities of Spain, 8.0% less.
| kWp | A year | July | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7,922 | 790 | 525 |
| 10 | 15,843 | 1,580 | 1,050 |
| 15 | 23,765 | 2,370 | 1,575 |
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
Sources
- PVGIS © European Union, 2001–2026 — yield, tilt and azimuth, data as of 2026-10-10
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — coordinates, elevation, population and divisions (changed)
- Where to take snow and wind loads from: CTE DB SE-AE
- How these numbers are computed
Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.