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Sun on a roof in Linden.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Linden at 1,411 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.9 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 Linden climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 139, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.57.
How Linden comparesderived from the figures above
Where Linden sits.
Linden ranks 1136th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 7th percentile. Its 1,411 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, June, July and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Douglassville, 20 km north: 1,396 kWh per kW, 15 less than Linden.
- Atlanta, 21 km northeast: 1,406 kWh per kW, 5 less than Linden.
- Avinger, 22 km southwest: 1,400 kWh per kW, 11 less than Linden.
- Marietta, 24 km northwest: 1,416 kWh per kW, 5 more than Linden.
- Queen City, 25 km northeast: 1,411 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Linden.
- Hughes Springs, 25 km west: 1,418 kWh per kW, 7 more than Linden.
- Jefferson, 28 km south: 1,391 kWh per kW, 20 less than Linden.
- Bloomburg, 31 km northeast: 1,410 kWh per kW, 1 less than Linden.
- Lone Star, 34 km west: 1,447 kWh per kW, 36 more than Linden.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 226 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Linden models 89 kWh per kW (5.9%) below it. At 0.22 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.9 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 Fort Worth, 280 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Linden runs 124 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Cass 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.
- Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp: 12.71¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 44,971 residential customers across 10 counties.
- Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc: 13.35¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 34,727 residential customers across 6 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 1,411 kWh would come to $178 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Linden 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 $217 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 756148
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 97.7 |
| February | 89.4 |
| March | 118.3 |
| April | 130.8 |
| May | 138.6 |
| June | 137.3 |
| July | 136.9 |
| August | 135.8 |
| September | 123.8 |
| October | 118.8 |
| November | 95.0 |
| December | 88.4 |
| Year | 1,411 |
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 33.01, -94.36 (Linden, population 1,812). Weather: typical-year data from station 756148, 1.9 km from that point.
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