PLANTA SOLAR TERMICA SOLNOVA 1 is a 150 MW solar power station in Andalusia, Spain. It is operated by SOLNOVA ELECTRICIDAD S.A (A-91378992). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 63,822 homes (estimated). It ranks #96 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 21.8% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023647.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SOLNOVA ELECTRICIDAD S.A (A-91378992).
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 65% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 25/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.4% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #3 largest solar power plant of 243 in Spain by capacity.
Spain has 243 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 4,901 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.4179, -6.2771 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
