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Sun on a roof in Midway.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Midway at 1,446 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.9 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 Midway climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 145, weakest 84: a ratio of 1.72.
How Midway comparesderived from the figures above
Where Midway sits.
Midway ranks 1051st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 14th percentile. Its 1,446 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May 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
- Madisonville, 17 km southwest: 1,433 kWh per kW, 13 less than Midway.
- Leona, 25 km northwest: 1,454 kWh per kW, 8 more than Midway.
- Lovelady, 32 km east: 1,424 kWh per kW, 22 less than Midway.
- Bedias, 33 km southwest: 1,450 kWh per kW, 4 more than Midway.
- Centerville, 33 km northwest: 1,468 kWh per kW, 22 more than Midway.
- Normangee, 34 km west: 1,474 kWh per kW, 28 more than Midway.
- Trinity, 39 km east: 1,432 kWh per kW, 14 less than Midway.
- Riverside, 40 km southeast: 1,412 kWh per kW, 34 less than Midway.
- Huntsville, 42 km southeast: 1,413 kWh per kW, 33 less than Midway.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 142 km to the south, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Midway models 24 kWh per kW (1.7%) above it. Midway lies 1.24 degrees of latitude north of Houston, 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 (2.9 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 Austin, 207 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Midway runs 37 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, October, November, December.
Electricity in Madison 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.
- Mid-South Electric Coop Assn: 15.37¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 37,251 residential customers across 6 counties.
- Houston County Elec Coop Inc: 15.28¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 21,761 residential customers across 9 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 1,446 kWh would come to $201 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Midway 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 $223 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 726364
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 94.4 |
| February | 93.5 |
| March | 114.0 |
| April | 132.7 |
| May | 142.9 |
| June | 140.4 |
| July | 145.0 |
| August | 145.0 |
| September | 130.4 |
| October | 121.9 |
| November | 101.5 |
| December | 84.2 |
| Year | 1,446 |
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 31.03, -95.76 (Midway, population 186). Weather: typical-year data from station 726364, 2.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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