Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power plant in Vila-real, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing

Vila-real: 1,620 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 37°, 2° west of south (PVGIS). Exactly the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #67 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 45.4% more here.

Vila-real is in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community. Population 50,577 (GeoNames). 42 m above sea level. 7 km away: Castellon, the nearest bigger city, the same 1,617 kWh/kWp. 6.64 m between rows, pitch 10.46 m, GCR 0.46 (latitude 39.9°).

Yield of 1 kWp
1,620kWh/year
Tilt
37°2° west of south
10 kW
16,203kWh/year
Row pitch
10.46m · GCR 0.46
Rank in the country
67of 147 cities

Ground frame designer

A ground frame for a solar plant: Vila-real

Latitude 39.9°: 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

114Jan117Feb139Mar145Apr156May154Jun160Jul155Aug137Sep128Oct109Nov107Dec

July: 160 kWh/kWp, December: 107 — 1.5 times less.

November: 109 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 5.8% more.

Vila-real: plants, kWh
kWpA yearJulyDecember
58,102800535
1016,2031,6001,070
1524,3052,4001,605

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.