Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Teruel, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Teruel: 1,603 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 37°, 4° east of south (PVGIS). 0.8% below the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #84 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 43.9% more here.

Teruel is in the province of Teruel, Aragon. Population 36,240 (GeoNames). 908 m above sea level. 93 km away: Cuenca, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,609 kWh/kWp. 6.77 m between rows, pitch 10.59 m, GCR 0.45 (latitude 40.3°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,603kWh/year
Tilt
37°4° east of south
10 kW
16,028kWh/year
Row pitch
10.59m · GCR 0.45
Rank in the country
84of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Teruel

Latitude 40.3°: 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

111Jan113Feb136Mar138Apr150May149Jun164Jul159Aug142Sep130Oct103Nov106Dec

July: 164 kWh/kWp, November: 103 — 1.6 times less.

April: 138 against the median of 143 for the main cities of Spain, 3.5% less.

Teruel: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
58,014820515
1016,0281,6401,030
1524,0422,4601,545

Fixed tilt facing south

What a table yields at another tilt than the optimal 37° — for roofs and frames with a standard slope.

Teruel: yield at a fixed tilt, kWh/kWp
TiltA yearAgainst the optimum
37° (optimum)1,603—
15°1,509−5.9%
30°1,591−0.7%
45°1,591−0.7%
90°1,076−32.9%

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.