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Sun on a roof in Livingston.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Livingston at 1,328 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 Livingston climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 135, weakest 74: a ratio of 1.83.
How Livingston comparesderived from the figures above
Where Livingston sits.
Livingston ranks 1219th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 0th percentile. Its 1,328 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, May, August and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Goodrich, 11 km south: 1,375 kWh per kW, 47 more than Livingston.
- Seven Oaks, 17 km northeast: 1,366 kWh per kW, 38 more than Livingston.
- Onalaska, 20 km northwest: 1,378 kWh per kW, 50 more than Livingston.
- Coldspring, 23 km southwest: 1,352 kWh per kW, 24 more than Livingston.
- Shepherd, 25 km south: 1,362 kWh per kW, 34 more than Livingston.
- Point Blank, 26 km west: 1,361 kWh per kW, 33 more than Livingston.
- Corrigan, 34 km north: 1,359 kWh per kW, 31 more than Livingston.
- Chester, 40 km northeast: 1,346 kWh per kW, 18 more than Livingston.
- North Cleveland, 42 km south: 1,350 kWh per kW, 22 more than Livingston.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 111 km to the southwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Livingston models 94 kWh per kW (6.6%) below it. Livingston lies 0.92 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 (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, 273 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Livingston runs 155 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Polk 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 1,328 kWh would come to $184 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Livingston 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 $205 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 743305
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 85.7 |
| February | 79.1 |
| March | 102.6 |
| April | 120.9 |
| May | 132.6 |
| June | 128.6 |
| July | 134.6 |
| August | 132.0 |
| September | 120.7 |
| October | 118.5 |
| November | 99.2 |
| December | 73.5 |
| Year | 1,328 |
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 30.71, -94.94 (Livingston, population 5,562). Weather: typical-year data from station 743305, 2.2 km from that point.
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