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Sun on a roof in Ore City.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Ore City at 1,446 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 Ore City climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 147, weakest 83: a ratio of 1.77.
How Ore City comparesderived from the figures above
Where Ore City sits.
Ore City 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 May, June, July and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in February. In all, 30.0% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Lone Star, 16 km north: 1,447 kWh per kW, 1 more than Ore City.
- Avinger, 19 km northeast: 1,400 kWh per kW, 46 less than Ore City.
- Gilmer, 23 km west: 1,448 kWh per kW, 2 more than Ore City.
- Hughes Springs, 24 km north: 1,418 kWh per kW, 28 less than Ore City.
- Daingerfield, 26 km north: 1,450 kWh per kW, 4 more than Ore City.
- East Mountain, 27 km southwest: 1,450 kWh per kW, 4 more than Ore City.
- Longview, 31 km south: 1,451 kWh per kW, 5 more than Ore City.
- Union Grove, 32 km southwest: 1,458 kWh per kW, 12 more than Ore City.
- Pittsburg, 32 km northwest: 1,456 kWh per kW, 10 more than Ore City.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 192 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Ore City models 54 kWh per kW (3.6%) below it. At 0.01 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 Fort Worth, 246 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Ore City runs 89 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Ore City runs at least 2% higher in May. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, April, July, August, September, November, December.
Electricity in Upshur 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.
- Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp: 12.71¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 44,971 residential customers across 10 counties.
- Wood County Electric Coop, Inc: 12.83¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 36,173 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 $182 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Scale the Ore City 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 748842
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 92.4 |
| February | 82.9 |
| March | 123.9 |
| April | 131.4 |
| May | 146.7 |
| June | 146.2 |
| July | 146.2 |
| August | 141.6 |
| September | 127.9 |
| October | 123.7 |
| November | 97.4 |
| December | 85.5 |
| 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 32.8, -94.72 (Ore City, population 1,199). Weather: typical-year data from station 748842, 2.2 km from that point.
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