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Sun on a roof in Olton.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Olton at 1,750 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 Olton climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 171, weakest 110: a ratio of 1.55.
How Olton comparesderived from the figures above
Where Olton sits.
Olton ranks 51st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 96th percentile. Its 1,750 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, August, June and the weakest are December, November, January; output peaks in May 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
- Springlake, 17 km west: 1,745 kWh per kW, 5 less than Olton.
- Hart, 24 km north: 1,734 kWh per kW, 16 less than Olton.
- Edmonson, 25 km northeast: 1,747 kWh per kW, 3 less than Olton.
- Earth, 25 km west: 1,724 kWh per kW, 26 less than Olton.
- Hale Center, 29 km southeast: 1,728 kWh per kW, 22 less than Olton.
- Amherst, 31 km southwest: 1,723 kWh per kW, 27 less than Olton.
- Littlefield, 34 km southwest: 1,755 kWh per kW, 5 more than Olton.
- Sudan, 37 km west: 1,724 kWh per kW, 26 less than Olton.
- Plainview, 39 km east: 1,739 kWh per kW, 11 less than Olton.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 471 km to the east, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Olton models 215 kWh per kW (14.0%) above it. Olton lies 1.4 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 (1.1 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 El Paso, 477 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,835 kWh per kW, so Olton runs 85 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Olton runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Lamb 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.
- Bailey County Elec Coop Assn: 9.82¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 3,461 residential customers across 5 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 1,750 kWh would come to $244 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Olton 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 $270 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 558537
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 123.7 |
| February | 124.8 |
| March | 143.9 |
| April | 166.7 |
| May | 171.3 |
| June | 167.8 |
| July | 166.4 |
| August | 168.7 |
| September | 141.2 |
| October | 145.5 |
| November | 119.9 |
| December | 110.3 |
| Year | 1,750 |
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 34.18, -102.14 (Olton, population 1,933). Weather: typical-year data from station 558537, 1.1 km from that point.
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