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Sun on a roof in Hillcrest Village.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Hillcrest Village at 1,453 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.2 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 Hillcrest Village climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 144, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.64.
How Hillcrest Village comparesderived from the figures above
Where Hillcrest Village sits.
Hillcrest Village ranks 1012th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 17th percentile. Its 1,453 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, June, May and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Alvin, 3 km north: 1,453 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Hillcrest Village.
- Liverpool, 11 km southwest: 1,447 kWh per kW, 6 less than Hillcrest Village.
- Santa Fe, 12 km east: 1,458 kWh per kW, 5 more than Hillcrest Village.
- Friendswood, 13 km north: 1,434 kWh per kW, 19 less than Hillcrest Village.
- League City, 15 km northeast: 1,440 kWh per kW, 13 less than Hillcrest Village.
- Dickinson, 17 km northeast: 1,457 kWh per kW, 4 more than Hillcrest Village.
- Manvel, 18 km northwest: 1,454 kWh per kW, 1 more than Hillcrest Village.
- Webster, 18 km northeast: 1,451 kWh per kW, 2 less than Hillcrest Village.
- Iowa Colony, 20 km west: 1,454 kWh per kW, 1 more than Hillcrest Village.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 47 km to the north, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Hillcrest Village models 31 kWh per kW (2.2%) above it. Hillcrest Village lies 0.4 degrees of latitude south of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its higher modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.2 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 Austin, 264 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Hillcrest Village runs 30 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Hillcrest Village runs at least 2% higher in November. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, December.
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Starting rate: the Texas residential average of 15.4¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $224 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 737433
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 98.9 |
| February | 87.5 |
| March | 117.3 |
| April | 129.5 |
| May | 141.4 |
| June | 142.9 |
| July | 140.8 |
| August | 143.7 |
| September | 123.7 |
| October | 122.5 |
| November | 110.9 |
| December | 94.0 |
| Year | 1,453 |
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 29.39, -95.22 (Hillcrest Village, population 695). Weather: typical-year data from station 737433, 2.2 km from that point.
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