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Sun on a roof in Queen City.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Queen City at 1,411 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.4 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 Queen City climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 143, weakest 87: a ratio of 1.64.
How Queen City comparesderived from the figures above
Where Queen City sits.
Queen City ranks 1136th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 7th percentile. Its 1,411 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.7% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Atlanta, 5 km southwest: 1,406 kWh per kW, 5 less than Queen City.
- Bloomburg, 8 km east: 1,410 kWh per kW, 1 less than Queen City.
- Domino, 13 km north: 1,440 kWh per kW, 29 more than Queen City.
- Douglassville, 19 km west: 1,396 kWh per kW, 15 less than Queen City.
- Linden, 25 km southwest: 1,411 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Queen City.
- Redwater, 25 km northwest: 1,430 kWh per kW, 19 more than Queen City.
- Maud, 27 km northwest: 1,441 kWh per kW, 30 more than Queen City.
- Wake Village, 30 km north: 1,431 kWh per kW, 20 more than Queen City.
- Nash, 33 km north: 1,430 kWh per kW, 19 more than Queen City.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 248 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Queen City models 89 kWh per kW (5.9%) below it. Queen City lies 0.36 degrees of latitude north of Dallas, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.4 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, 301 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Queen City runs 124 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Cass 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.
- Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc: 13.35¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 34,727 residential customers across 6 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 1,411 kWh would come to $178 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Scale the Queen 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 $217 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 759640
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 98.9 |
| February | 91.9 |
| March | 113.1 |
| April | 129.1 |
| May | 133.8 |
| June | 136.4 |
| July | 142.6 |
| August | 139.5 |
| September | 123.8 |
| October | 119.2 |
| November | 95.9 |
| December | 86.8 |
| Year | 1,411 |
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 33.15, -94.15 (Queen City, population 1,391). Weather: typical-year data from station 759640, 2.4 km from that point.
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