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Sun on a roof in Lorenzo.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Lorenzo at 1,718 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 Lorenzo climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 167, weakest 113: a ratio of 1.48.
How Lorenzo comparesderived from the figures above
Where Lorenzo sits.
Lorenzo ranks 95th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 92nd percentile. Its 1,718 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, May, April and the weakest are December, November, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.7% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Idalou, 13 km west: 1,720 kWh per kW, 2 more than Lorenzo.
- Ralls, 15 km east: 1,738 kWh per kW, 20 more than Lorenzo.
- Ransom Canyon, 21 km southwest: 1,759 kWh per kW, 41 more than Lorenzo.
- Buffalo Springs Lake, 21 km southwest: 1,759 kWh per kW, 41 more than Lorenzo.
- Petersburg, 23 km north: 1,747 kWh per kW, 29 more than Lorenzo.
- Slaton, 27 km southwest: 1,742 kWh per kW, 24 more than Lorenzo.
- Crosbyton, 28 km east: 1,740 kWh per kW, 22 more than Lorenzo.
- New Deal, 29 km west: 1,760 kWh per kW, 42 more than Lorenzo.
- Abernathy, 34 km northwest: 1,746 kWh per kW, 28 more than Lorenzo.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 402 km to the east, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Lorenzo models 183 kWh per kW (11.9%) above it. Lorenzo lies 0.89 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 (2.2 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, 454 km east, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Lorenzo runs 218 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Lorenzo runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Crosby 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 1,718 kWh would come to $239 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Lorenzo 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 $265 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 574909
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 121.4 |
| February | 121.6 |
| March | 136.6 |
| April | 165.4 |
| May | 165.8 |
| June | 164.3 |
| July | 167.3 |
| August | 160.8 |
| September | 143.9 |
| October | 137.6 |
| November | 120.1 |
| December | 112.8 |
| Year | 1,718 |
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 33.67, -101.54 (Lorenzo, population 946). Weather: typical-year data from station 574909, 2.2 km from that point.
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