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Sun on a roof in New Boston.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in New Boston at 1,450 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.1 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 New Boston climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 148, weakest 84: a ratio of 1.76.
How New Boston comparesderived from the figures above
Where New Boston sits.
New Boston ranks 1025th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 16th percentile. Its 1,450 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are June, August, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in June and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Hooks, 12 km east: 1,435 kWh per kW, 15 less than New Boston.
- Maud, 16 km southeast: 1,441 kWh per kW, 9 less than New Boston.
- Redwater, 19 km southeast: 1,430 kWh per kW, 20 less than New Boston.
- De Kalb, 19 km west: 1,455 kWh per kW, 5 more than New Boston.
- Leary, 20 km east: 1,432 kWh per kW, 18 less than New Boston.
- Red Lick, 24 km east: 1,429 kWh per kW, 21 less than New Boston.
- Nash, 27 km east: 1,430 kWh per kW, 20 less than New Boston.
- Wake Village, 27 km east: 1,431 kWh per kW, 19 less than New Boston.
- Texarkana, 31 km east: 1,425 kWh per kW, 25 less than New Boston.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 231 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. New Boston models 50 kWh per kW (3.3%) below it. New Boston lies 0.67 degrees of latitude north of Dallas, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The weather station for New Boston is 1.1 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Dallas, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 283 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so New Boston runs 85 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, July, August, September, November, December.
Electricity in Bowie 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.
- Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc: 13.35¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 34,727 residential customers across 6 counties.
- Southwest Arkansas E C C: 13.29¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 1,094 residential customers across 2 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 1,450 kWh would come to $183 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Scale the New Boston 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 754443
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.0 |
| February | 92.1 |
| March | 118.3 |
| April | 129.2 |
| May | 141.9 |
| June | 148.3 |
| July | 135.8 |
| August | 145.1 |
| September | 125.5 |
| October | 125.0 |
| November | 104.5 |
| December | 84.4 |
| Year | 1,450 |
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 33.46, -94.42 (New Boston, population 4,546). Weather: typical-year data from station 754443, 1.1 km from that point.
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