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Sun on a roof in Poetry.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Poetry at 1,465 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 Poetry climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 152, weakest 87: a ratio of 1.76.
How Poetry comparesderived from the figures above
Where Poetry sits.
Poetry ranks 955th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 22nd percentile. Its 1,465 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, June, August and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 30.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- McLendon-Chisholm, 12 km west: 1,496 kWh per kW, 31 more than Poetry.
- Union Valley, 12 km north: 1,490 kWh per kW, 25 more than Poetry.
- Terrell, 13 km south: 1,479 kWh per kW, 14 more than Poetry.
- Quinlan, 14 km northeast: 1,467 kWh per kW, 2 more than Poetry.
- Royse City, 16 km north: 1,479 kWh per kW, 14 more than Poetry.
- Fate, 17 km northwest: 1,497 kWh per kW, 32 more than Poetry.
- Mobile City, 17 km northwest: 1,524 kWh per kW, 59 more than Poetry.
- Hawk Cove, 17 km east: 1,472 kWh per kW, 7 more than Poetry.
- Heath, 19 km west: 1,508 kWh per kW, 43 more than Poetry.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 48 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Poetry models 35 kWh per kW (2.3%) below it. At 0.05 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The weather station for Poetry 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, 102 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Poetry runs 70 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in February, April, May, August, September, October, November, December.
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Scale the Poetry 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 $226 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 715064
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 103.6 |
| February | 96.9 |
| March | 124.0 |
| April | 127.1 |
| May | 138.2 |
| June | 144.8 |
| July | 152.5 |
| August | 143.9 |
| September | 128.3 |
| October | 120.1 |
| November | 98.3 |
| December | 86.8 |
| Year | 1,465 |
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 32.84, -96.26 (Poetry, population 1,559). Weather: typical-year data from station 715064, 1.1 km from that point.
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