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Sun on a roof in Gary City.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Gary City at 1,404 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.4 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 Gary City climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 140, weakest 90: a ratio of 1.56.
How Gary City comparesderived from the figures above
Where Gary City sits.
Gary City ranks 1144th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 6th percentile. Its 1,404 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Carthage, 14 km north: 1,386 kWh per kW, 18 less than Gary City.
- Timpson, 14 km south: 1,396 kWh per kW, 8 less than Gary City.
- Tenaha, 15 km southeast: 1,397 kWh per kW, 7 less than Gary City.
- Beckville, 25 km north: 1,394 kWh per kW, 10 less than Gary City.
- Garrison, 25 km southwest: 1,385 kWh per kW, 19 less than Gary City.
- Joaquin, 31 km east: 1,382 kWh per kW, 22 less than Gary City.
- Mount Enterprise, 32 km southwest: 1,401 kWh per kW, 3 less than Gary City.
- Center, 32 km southeast: 1,385 kWh per kW, 19 less than Gary City.
- Tatum, 35 km northwest: 1,386 kWh per kW, 18 less than Gary City.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 241 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Gary City models 96 kWh per kW (6.4%) below it. Gary City lies 0.76 degrees of latitude south of Dallas, which on sun angle alone would point the other way, so clouds, haze and the weather station's record carry the difference. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.4 km and 2.4 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Houston, 267 km south, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Gary City runs 18 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Panola CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Southwestern Electric Power Co: 12.6¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 157,119 residential customers across 25 counties.
- Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc: 14.05¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 40,593 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc: 13.3¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 18,253 residential customers across 5 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 1,404 kWh would come to $177 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Gary City 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 $216 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 755319
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 96.2 |
| February | 91.6 |
| March | 111.8 |
| April | 130.0 |
| May | 135.0 |
| June | 133.9 |
| July | 140.1 |
| August | 139.7 |
| September | 123.1 |
| October | 115.2 |
| November | 97.6 |
| December | 89.8 |
| Year | 1,404 |
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 32.03, -94.37 (Gary City, population 343). Weather: typical-year data from station 755319, 2.4 km from that point.
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