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Sun on a roof in Detroit.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Detroit at 1,464 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 Detroit climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 155, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.77.
How Detroit comparesderived from the figures above
Where Detroit sits.
Detroit ranks 961st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 21st percentile. Its 1,464 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, June, August and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 30.7% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Blossom, 10 km west: 1,493 kWh per kW, 29 more than Detroit.
- Sun Valley, 15 km west: 1,492 kWh per kW, 28 more than Detroit.
- Deport, 15 km south: 1,484 kWh per kW, 20 more than Detroit.
- Clarksville, 20 km east: 1,447 kWh per kW, 17 less than Detroit.
- Bogata, 22 km south: 1,465 kWh per kW, 1 more than Detroit.
- Paris, 26 km west: 1,498 kWh per kW, 34 more than Detroit.
- Annona, 35 km east: 1,437 kWh per kW, 27 less than Detroit.
- Toco, 35 km west: 1,491 kWh per kW, 27 more than Detroit.
- Talco, 37 km southeast: 1,433 kWh per kW, 31 less than Detroit.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 170 km to the southwest, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Detroit models 36 kWh per kW (2.4%) below it. Detroit lies 0.87 degrees of latitude north of Dallas, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The weather station for Detroit is 1.4 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Dallas, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 217 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Detroit runs 71 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, September, November, December.
Electricity in Red River CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Detroit is on Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Detroit may instead be served by a co-op or utility listed below, which sets its own rates; check your bill. For scale only, the median 2025 average price across the 60 Texas retail providers on this site is 15.32¢ per kWh, which would put the modeled 1,464 kWh at $224 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Southwestern Electric Power Co: 12.6¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 157,119 residential customers across 25 counties.
- Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc: 13.35¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 34,727 residential customers across 6 counties.
- Lamar County Elec Coop Assn: 13.43¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 13,121 residential customers across 4 counties.
- Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC: 5.64¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 3,545,814 residential customers across 99 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Detroit. They are the largest bundled providers, and the largest delivery-only one, 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.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Detroit 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 $225 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 736735
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 99.3 |
| February | 88.5 |
| March | 121.8 |
| April | 131.7 |
| May | 140.7 |
| June | 147.2 |
| July | 155.2 |
| August | 146.9 |
| September | 126.5 |
| October | 124.1 |
| November | 94.6 |
| December | 87.8 |
| Year | 1,464 |
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 33.66, -95.27 (Detroit, population 706). Weather: typical-year data from station 736735, 1.4 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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