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Sun on a roof in Dalhart.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Dalhart at 1,739 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.4 km away. A modeled estimate for a standard setup, not a measurement of any roof.
A year on one roof.
Scroll from January to December: the noon sun over Dalhart climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 173, weakest 107: a ratio of 1.62.
How Dalhart comparesderived from the figures above
Where Dalhart sits.
Dalhart ranks 67th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 95th percentile. Its 1,739 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, June, July and the weakest are December, January, November; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Cactus, 45 km east: 1,714 kWh per kW, 25 less than Dalhart.
- Channing, 45 km south: 1,717 kWh per kW, 22 less than Dalhart.
- Stratford, 50 km northeast: 1,710 kWh per kW, 29 less than Dalhart.
- Dumas, 54 km southeast: 1,709 kWh per kW, 30 less than Dalhart.
- Texline, 58 km northwest: 1,755 kWh per kW, 16 more than Dalhart.
- Sunray, 62 km east: 1,690 kWh per kW, 49 less than Dalhart.
- Texhoma, 80 km northeast: 1,695 kWh per kW, 44 less than Dalhart.
- Adrian, 89 km south: 1,736 kWh per kW, 3 less than Dalhart.
- Vega, 90 km south: 1,745 kWh per kW, 6 more than Dalhart.
Against El Paso
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is El Paso, 591 km to the southwest, at 1,835 kWh per kW. Dalhart models 96 kWh per kW (5.2%) below it. Dalhart lies 4.21 degrees of latitude north of El Paso, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.4 km and 0.9 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 597 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Dalhart runs 204 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Dalhart runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Dallam County, Hartley CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Southwestern Public Service Co: 13.94¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 223,685 residential customers across 45 counties.
- Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc: 8.41¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 1,166 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK): 15.55¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 220 residential customers across 3 counties.
They are the largest bundled providers whose EIA service territory lists the county. A county can list several, and which one serves a street depends on the address, so check your bill. Priced at the first provider's average, the modeled 1,739 kWh would come to $242 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Dalhart model to another array size, take off extra losses for shade or dirt, and price the energy at any rate. It is arithmetic on the PVWatts output above, nothing more: not a quote, not a savings estimate and not advice.
Starting rate: the Texas residential average of 15.4¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $268 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 549253
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 114.6 |
| February | 119.3 |
| March | 149.8 |
| April | 165.0 |
| May | 173.4 |
| June | 169.1 |
| July | 167.4 |
| August | 164.6 |
| September | 151.0 |
| October | 138.1 |
| November | 119.2 |
| December | 107.3 |
| Year | 1,739 |
Model assumptions
- System size
- 1 kWDC, results scale per kW
- Mount
- fixed roof mount
- Tilt
- 20°
- Azimuth
- 180°due south
- Modules
- standard
- System losses
- 14%
Location 36.06, -102.51 (Dalhart, population 8,443). Weather: typical-year data from station 549253, 1.4 km from that point.
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