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Sun on a roof in Morton.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Morton at 1,759 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 Morton climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 172, weakest 110: a ratio of 1.57.
How Morton comparesderived from the figures above
Where Morton sits.
Morton ranks 38th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 97th percentile. Its 1,759 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, August, June and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Whiteface, 19 km southeast: 1,780 kWh per kW, 21 more than Morton.
- Sundown, 38 km southeast: 1,752 kWh per kW, 7 less than Morton.
- Levelland, 40 km southeast: 1,761 kWh per kW, 2 more than Morton.
- Sudan, 45 km northeast: 1,724 kWh per kW, 35 less than Morton.
- Opdyke West, 45 km east: 1,735 kWh per kW, 24 less than Morton.
- Littlefield, 46 km northeast: 1,755 kWh per kW, 4 less than Morton.
- Amherst, 46 km northeast: 1,723 kWh per kW, 36 less than Morton.
- Anton, 56 km east: 1,754 kWh per kW, 5 less than Morton.
- Muleshoe, 57 km north: 1,726 kWh per kW, 33 less than Morton.
Against El Paso
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is El Paso, 401 km to the southwest, at 1,835 kWh per kW. Morton models 76 kWh per kW (4.1%) below it. Morton lies 1.87 degrees of latitude north of El Paso, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The weather station for Morton is 2.2 km from the modeled point, against 0.9 km for El Paso, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 514 km east, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Morton runs 224 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Morton runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Cochran 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.
- Bailey County Elec Coop Assn: 9.82¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 3,461 residential customers across 5 counties.
- Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc: 9.83¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 2,799 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 1,759 kWh would come to $245 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Morton 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 $271 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 543071
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 123.3 |
| February | 123.5 |
| March | 159.8 |
| April | 162.8 |
| May | 172.5 |
| June | 167.3 |
| July | 166.1 |
| August | 169.4 |
| September | 143.2 |
| October | 136.7 |
| November | 124.3 |
| December | 110.2 |
| Year | 1,759 |
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 33.72, -102.76 (Morton, population 1,712). Weather: typical-year data from station 543071, 2.2 km from that point.
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