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Sun on a roof in Richland Hills.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Richland Hills at 1,521 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 0.9 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 Richland Hills climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 150, weakest 98: a ratio of 1.52.
How Richland Hills comparesderived from the figures above
Where Richland Hills sits.
Richland Hills ranks 549th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 55th percentile. Its 1,521 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, June, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.0% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Haltom City, 4 km west: 1,542 kWh per kW, 21 more than Richland Hills.
- North Richland Hills, 6 km north: 1,565 kWh per kW, 44 more than Richland Hills.
- Hurst, 6 km northeast: 1,536 kWh per kW, 15 more than Richland Hills.
- Watauga, 7 km north: 1,558 kWh per kW, 37 more than Richland Hills.
- Bedford, 10 km northeast: 1,542 kWh per kW, 21 more than Richland Hills.
- Blue Mound, 11 km northwest: 1,554 kWh per kW, 33 more than Richland Hills.
- Colleyville, 12 km northeast: 1,551 kWh per kW, 30 more than Richland Hills.
- Fort Worth, 12 km west: 1,535 kWh per kW, 14 more than Richland Hills.
- Keller, 13 km north: 1,558 kWh per kW, 37 more than Richland Hills.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 12 km to the west, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Richland Hills models 14 kWh per kW (0.9%) below it. The two figures are within 1 percent, which is about the size of the difference you get from two neighboring weather stations alone, so this page's result is effectively the same as Fort Worth's.
The second-nearest large place is Dallas, 43 km east, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Richland Hills runs 21 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Richland Hills runs at least 2% higher in January, June, September. It runs at least 2% lower in July, October.
Electricity in Tarrant CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery in this county. Where Richland Hills is on Oncor Electric Delivery's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Richland Hills may instead be served by a co-op or utility listed below, which sets its own rates; check your bill. For scale only, the median 2025 average price across the 60 Texas retail providers on this site is 15.32¢ per kWh, which would put the modeled 1,521 kWh at $233 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Denton County Elec Coop, Inc: 13.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 310,805 residential customers across 6 counties.
- Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX): 15.07¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 117,857 residential customers across 16 counties.
- United Electric Coop Service Inc: 13.91¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 91,268 residential customers across 14 counties.
- Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC: 5.64¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 3,545,814 residential customers across 99 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Richland Hills. They are the largest bundled providers, and the largest delivery-only one, 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.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Richland Hills 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 $234 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 691971
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 106.9 |
| February | 99.9 |
| March | 125.9 |
| April | 134.3 |
| May | 143.1 |
| June | 149.3 |
| July | 142.9 |
| August | 149.5 |
| September | 142.7 |
| October | 120.0 |
| November | 108.4 |
| December | 98.4 |
| Year | 1,521 |
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 32.81, -97.23 (Richland Hills, population 8,546). Weather: typical-year data from station 691971, 0.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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