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Sun on a roof in Ellinger.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Ellinger at 1,488 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.5 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 Ellinger climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 146, weakest 85: a ratio of 1.71.
How Ellinger comparesderived from the figures above
Where Ellinger sits.
Ellinger ranks 835th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 32nd percentile. Its 1,488 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, May, June and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.2% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Fayetteville, 8 km north: 1,492 kWh per kW, 4 more than Ellinger.
- Weimar, 17 km southwest: 1,495 kWh per kW, 7 more than Ellinger.
- La Grange, 18 km northwest: 1,487 kWh per kW, 1 less than Ellinger.
- Columbus, 21 km southeast: 1,469 kWh per kW, 19 less than Ellinger.
- Round Top, 24 km north: 1,492 kWh per kW, 4 more than Ellinger.
- Industry, 25 km northeast: 1,459 kWh per kW, 29 less than Ellinger.
- Schulenburg, 26 km southwest: 1,482 kWh per kW, 6 less than Ellinger.
- Carmine, 35 km north: 1,483 kWh per kW, 5 less than Ellinger.
- Burton, 40 km north: 1,486 kWh per kW, 2 less than Ellinger.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 112 km to the northwest, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Ellinger models 5 kWh per kW (0.3%) above it. The two figures are within 1 percent, which is about the size of the difference you get from two neighboring weather stations alone, so this page's result is effectively the same as Austin's.
The second-nearest large place is Houston, 127 km east, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Ellinger runs 66 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Ellinger runs at least 2% higher in February, September, November. It runs at least 2% lower in January, March, July, August, December.
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Scale the Ellinger 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 $229 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 704298
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 93.8 |
| February | 104.4 |
| March | 120.4 |
| April | 134.7 |
| May | 144.7 |
| June | 144.1 |
| July | 146.0 |
| August | 143.8 |
| September | 136.2 |
| October | 124.6 |
| November | 110.0 |
| December | 85.2 |
| Year | 1,488 |
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 29.84, -96.71 (Ellinger, population 296). Weather: typical-year data from station 704298, 1.5 km from that point.
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