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Sun on a roof in Runaway Bay.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Runaway Bay at 1,540 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.4 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 Runaway Bay climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 151, weakest 95: a ratio of 1.59.
How Runaway Bay comparesderived from the figures above
Where Runaway Bay sits.
Runaway Bay ranks 411th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 66th percentile. Its 1,540 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, August, July and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Lake Bridgeport, 5 km northeast: 1,513 kWh per kW, 27 less than Runaway Bay.
- Bridgeport, 10 km east: 1,532 kWh per kW, 8 less than Runaway Bay.
- Chico, 15 km northeast: 1,569 kWh per kW, 29 more than Runaway Bay.
- Paradise, 17 km east: 1,553 kWh per kW, 13 more than Runaway Bay.
- Alvord, 26 km northeast: 1,550 kWh per kW, 10 more than Runaway Bay.
- Decatur, 27 km east: 1,557 kWh per kW, 17 more than Runaway Bay.
- Jacksboro, 28 km west: 1,563 kWh per kW, 23 more than Runaway Bay.
- Springtown, 29 km southeast: 1,564 kWh per kW, 24 more than Runaway Bay.
- Boyd, 31 km east: 1,543 kWh per kW, 3 more than Runaway Bay.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 66 km to the southeast, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Runaway Bay models 5 kWh per kW (0.3%) above 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, 111 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Runaway Bay runs 40 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Runaway Bay runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, October. It runs at least 2% lower in July, December.
Electricity in Wise CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery in this county. Where Runaway Bay is on Oncor Electric Delivery's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Runaway Bay 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 1,540 kWh at $236 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.
- Wise Electric Coop Inc: 15.33¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 20,682 residential customers across 7 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 Runaway Bay. 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 Runaway Bay 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 $237 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 674855
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 105.3 |
| February | 105.7 |
| March | 130.0 |
| April | 139.8 |
| May | 151.3 |
| June | 144.1 |
| July | 148.0 |
| August | 151.3 |
| September | 134.8 |
| October | 129.2 |
| November | 106.0 |
| December | 94.9 |
| Year | 1,540 |
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 33.18, -97.87 (Runaway Bay, population 2,123). Weather: typical-year data from station 674855, 1.4 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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