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Sun on a roof in Hale Center.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Hale Center at 1,728 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 Hale Center climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 169, weakest 108: a ratio of 1.56.
How Hale Center comparesderived from the figures above
Where Hale Center sits.
Hale Center ranks 81st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 93rd percentile. Its 1,728 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are June, May, July and the weakest are December, November, January; output peaks in June and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Plainview, 18 km northeast: 1,739 kWh per kW, 11 more than Hale Center.
- Edmonson, 24 km north: 1,747 kWh per kW, 19 more than Hale Center.
- Abernathy, 27 km south: 1,746 kWh per kW, 18 more than Hale Center.
- Olton, 29 km northwest: 1,750 kWh per kW, 22 more than Hale Center.
- Petersburg, 32 km southeast: 1,747 kWh per kW, 19 more than Hale Center.
- Kress, 35 km north: 1,729 kWh per kW, 1 more than Hale Center.
- New Deal, 38 km south: 1,760 kWh per kW, 32 more than Hale Center.
- Lockney, 38 km east: 1,693 kWh per kW, 35 less than Hale Center.
- Anton, 41 km southwest: 1,754 kWh per kW, 26 more than Hale Center.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 442 km to the east, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Hale Center models 193 kWh per kW (12.6%) above it. Hale Center lies 1.29 degrees of latitude north of Fort Worth, 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 1.5 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Dallas, 492 km east, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Hale Center runs 228 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Hale Center runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Hale 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.
- South Plains Electric Coop Inc: 11.02¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 58,726 residential customers across 18 counties.
- Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc: 16.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 3,880 residential customers across 12 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 1,728 kWh would come to $241 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Hale Center 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 $266 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 566535
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 121.5 |
| February | 124.8 |
| March | 153.3 |
| April | 161.3 |
| May | 165.3 |
| June | 168.7 |
| July | 163.9 |
| August | 158.5 |
| September | 142.5 |
| October | 143.5 |
| November | 116.6 |
| December | 108.0 |
| Year | 1,728 |
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 34.07, -101.85 (Hale Center, population 2,000). Weather: typical-year data from station 566535, 2.4 km from that point.
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