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Sun on a roof in Slaton.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Slaton at 1,742 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 Slaton climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 167, weakest 112: a ratio of 1.49.
How Slaton comparesderived from the figures above
Where Slaton sits.
Slaton ranks 63rd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 95th percentile. Its 1,742 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are April, May, July and the weakest are December, November, February; output peaks in April and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Ransom Canyon, 10 km northwest: 1,759 kWh per kW, 17 more than Slaton.
- Buffalo Springs Lake, 10 km northwest: 1,759 kWh per kW, 17 more than Slaton.
- Wilson, 16 km southwest: 1,739 kWh per kW, 3 less than Slaton.
- Idalou, 24 km north: 1,720 kWh per kW, 22 less than Slaton.
- Lubbock, 25 km northwest: 1,721 kWh per kW, 21 less than Slaton.
- Lorenzo, 27 km northeast: 1,718 kWh per kW, 24 less than Slaton.
- New Home, 28 km southwest: 1,744 kWh per kW, 2 more than Slaton.
- Wolfforth, 34 km west: 1,763 kWh per kW, 21 more than Slaton.
- Tahoka, 35 km southwest: 1,749 kWh per kW, 7 more than Slaton.
Against Fort Worth
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 407 km to the east, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Slaton models 207 kWh per kW (13.5%) above it. Slaton lies 0.67 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 (0.9 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, 460 km east, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Slaton runs 242 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Slaton runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Lubbock 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.
- South Plains Electric Coop Inc: 11.02¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 58,726 residential customers across 18 counties.
- Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc: 10.35¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 9,163 residential customers across 12 counties.
- City of Lubbock: 6.31¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 94,738 residential customers across 1 county.
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. Priced at the first provider's average, the modeled 1,742 kWh would come to $243 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Slaton 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 $268 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 571143
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 124.8 |
| February | 124.3 |
| March | 155.1 |
| April | 166.9 |
| May | 165.9 |
| June | 163.3 |
| July | 165.9 |
| August | 160.9 |
| September | 145.3 |
| October | 136.2 |
| November | 121.1 |
| December | 112.3 |
| Year | 1,742 |
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 33.45, -101.65 (Slaton, population 5,698). Weather: typical-year data from station 571143, 0.9 km from that point.
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