Spain: solar plant site data

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

Torrent: 1,628 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 37°, facing south (PVGIS). 0.8% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #59 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 46.1% more here.

Torrent is in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. Population 78,543 (GeoNames). 51 m above sea level. 8 km away: Valencia, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,632 kWh/kWp. 6.48 m between rows, pitch 10.30 m, GCR 0.46 (latitude 39.4°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,628kWh/year
Tilt
37°facing south
10 kW
16,278kWh/year
Row pitch
10.30m · GCR 0.46
Rank in the country
59of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Torrent

Latitude 39.4°: 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

121Jan117Feb140Mar143Apr155May152Jun158Jul154Aug137Sep128Oct111Nov111Dec

July: 158 kWh/kWp, November: 111 — 1.4 times less.

January: 121 against the median of 109 for the main cities of Spain, 11.0% more.

Torrent: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyNovember
58,139790555
1016,2781,5801,110
1524,4172,3701,665

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

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Sources

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