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Sun on a roof in Panhandle.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Panhandle at 1,690 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 Panhandle climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 169, weakest 107: a ratio of 1.58.
How Panhandle comparesderived from the figures above
Where Panhandle sits.
Panhandle ranks 120th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 90th percentile. Its 1,690 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, June, July and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- White Deer, 20 km northeast: 1,678 kWh per kW, 12 less than Panhandle.
- Claude, 27 km south: 1,722 kWh per kW, 32 more than Panhandle.
- Groom, 29 km southeast: 1,702 kWh per kW, 12 more than Panhandle.
- Skellytown, 31 km northeast: 1,684 kWh per kW, 6 less than Panhandle.
- Borger, 35 km north: 1,682 kWh per kW, 8 less than Panhandle.
- Fritch, 38 km northwest: 1,679 kWh per kW, 11 less than Panhandle.
- Sanford, 41 km north: 1,680 kWh per kW, 10 less than Panhandle.
- Pampa, 43 km northeast: 1,676 kWh per kW, 14 less than Panhandle.
- Amarillo, 44 km west: 1,720 kWh per kW, 30 more than Panhandle.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 468 km to the southeast, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Panhandle models 155 kWh per kW (10.1%) above it. Panhandle lies 2.57 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 (2.2 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 Dallas, 511 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Panhandle runs 190 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Panhandle runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Carson 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.
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 1,690 kWh would come to $236 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Panhandle 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 $260 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 578438
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 118.0 |
| February | 110.4 |
| March | 153.8 |
| April | 153.6 |
| May | 169.3 |
| June | 166.5 |
| July | 166.5 |
| August | 158.3 |
| September | 143.5 |
| October | 131.4 |
| November | 110.9 |
| December | 107.4 |
| Year | 1,690 |
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 35.35, -101.38 (Panhandle, population 2,315). Weather: typical-year data from station 578438, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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