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Sun on a roof in Ivanhoe.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Ivanhoe at 1,341 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 Ivanhoe climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 132, weakest 80: a ratio of 1.66.
How Ivanhoe comparesderived from the figures above
Where Ivanhoe sits.
Ivanhoe ranks 1217th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 0th percentile. Its 1,341 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in August 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
- Woodville, 10 km north: 1,364 kWh per kW, 23 more than Ivanhoe.
- Colmesneil, 26 km north: 1,358 kWh per kW, 17 more than Ivanhoe.
- Chester, 32 km northwest: 1,346 kWh per kW, 5 more than Ivanhoe.
- Kountze, 36 km south: 1,325 kWh per kW, 16 less than Ivanhoe.
- Silsbee, 43 km southeast: 1,357 kWh per kW, 16 more than Ivanhoe.
- Seven Oaks, 47 km northwest: 1,366 kWh per kW, 25 more than Ivanhoe.
- Jasper, 48 km northeast: 1,331 kWh per kW, 10 less than Ivanhoe.
- Kirbyville, 49 km east: 1,369 kWh per kW, 28 more than Ivanhoe.
- Livingston, 51 km west: 1,328 kWh per kW, 13 less than Ivanhoe.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 137 km to the southwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Ivanhoe models 81 kWh per kW (5.7%) below it. Ivanhoe lies 0.89 degrees of latitude north of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.5 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, 323 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Ivanhoe runs 142 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Tyler CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Entergy Texas Inc.: 13.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 469,094 residential customers across 27 counties.
- Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc: 14.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 88,424 residential customers across 10 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 1,341 kWh would come to $186 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Ivanhoe 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 $207 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 754059
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 97.4 |
| February | 84.2 |
| March | 99.5 |
| April | 120.3 |
| May | 130.6 |
| June | 128.2 |
| July | 130.8 |
| August | 132.3 |
| September | 119.4 |
| October | 118.2 |
| November | 100.1 |
| December | 79.6 |
| Year | 1,341 |
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 30.68, -94.41 (Ivanhoe, population 1,392). Weather: typical-year data from station 754059, 1.5 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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