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Sun on a roof in Sundown.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Sundown at 1,752 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 Sundown climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 173, weakest 114: a ratio of 1.52.
How Sundown comparesderived from the figures above
Where Sundown sits.
Sundown ranks 48th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 96th percentile. Its 1,752 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, June and the weakest are December, November, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 27.9% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Levelland, 18 km northeast: 1,761 kWh per kW, 9 more than Sundown.
- Whiteface, 19 km northwest: 1,780 kWh per kW, 28 more than Sundown.
- Opdyke West, 23 km northeast: 1,735 kWh per kW, 17 less than Sundown.
- Meadow, 29 km southeast: 1,752 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Sundown.
- Ropesville, 31 km east: 1,752 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Sundown.
- Smyer, 34 km northeast: 1,732 kWh per kW, 20 less than Sundown.
- Brownfield, 37 km southeast: 1,763 kWh per kW, 11 more than Sundown.
- Morton, 38 km northwest: 1,759 kWh per kW, 7 more than Sundown.
- Plains, 43 km southwest: 1,774 kWh per kW, 22 more than Sundown.
Against El Paso
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is El Paso, 410 km to the southwest, at 1,835 kWh per kW. Sundown models 83 kWh per kW (4.5%) below it. Sundown lies 1.61 degrees of latitude north of El Paso, 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 (1.4 km and 0.9 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, 485 km east, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Sundown runs 217 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Sundown runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Hockley 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.
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 1,752 kWh would come to $244 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Sundown 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 $270 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 548829
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 124.0 |
| February | 129.6 |
| March | 159.7 |
| April | 162.6 |
| May | 173.0 |
| June | 162.8 |
| July | 166.1 |
| August | 159.7 |
| September | 145.5 |
| October | 139.2 |
| November | 115.4 |
| December | 114.1 |
| Year | 1,752 |
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 33.46, -102.49 (Sundown, population 1,306). Weather: typical-year data from station 548829, 1.4 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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