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Sun on a roof in Nome.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Nome at 1,407 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 Nome climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 140, weakest 80: a ratio of 1.75.
How Nome comparesderived from the figures above
Where Nome sits.
Nome ranks 1142nd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 6th percentile. Its 1,407 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in February. 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
- China, 8 km east: 1,410 kWh per kW, 3 more than Nome.
- Sour Lake, 12 km north: 1,404 kWh per kW, 3 less than Nome.
- Devers, 16 km west: 1,403 kWh per kW, 4 less than Nome.
- Bevil Oaks, 20 km northeast: 1,387 kWh per kW, 20 less than Nome.
- Daisetta, 23 km northwest: 1,416 kWh per kW, 9 more than Nome.
- Beaumont, 27 km east: 1,401 kWh per kW, 6 less than Nome.
- Rose Hill Acres, 28 km northeast: 1,393 kWh per kW, 14 less than Nome.
- Ames, 31 km west: 1,415 kWh per kW, 8 more than Nome.
- Lumberton, 32 km northeast: 1,364 kWh per kW, 43 less than Nome.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 97 km to the west, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Nome models 15 kWh per kW (1.1%) below it. At 0.24 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. 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, 322 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Nome runs 76 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Jefferson 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.
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 1,407 kWh would come to $195 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Nome 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 $217 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 754330
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.0 |
| February | 80.1 |
| March | 121.0 |
| April | 126.7 |
| May | 140.3 |
| June | 133.7 |
| July | 137.7 |
| August | 132.6 |
| September | 123.0 |
| October | 117.9 |
| November | 101.5 |
| December | 92.5 |
| Year | 1,407 |
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 30.03, -94.42 (Nome, population 470). Weather: typical-year data from station 754330, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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