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Sun on a roof in Waskom.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Waskom at 1,404 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.1 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 Waskom climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 141, weakest 86: a ratio of 1.63.
How Waskom comparesderived from the figures above
Where Waskom sits.
Waskom ranks 1144th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 6th percentile. Its 1,404 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, August and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.2% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Scottsville, 18 km west: 1,385 kWh per kW, 19 less than Waskom.
- Uncertain, 25 km north: 1,380 kWh per kW, 24 less than Waskom.
- Marshall, 28 km west: 1,385 kWh per kW, 19 less than Waskom.
- Jefferson, 41 km northwest: 1,391 kWh per kW, 13 less than Waskom.
- Carthage, 45 km southwest: 1,386 kWh per kW, 18 less than Waskom.
- Beckville, 46 km southwest: 1,394 kWh per kW, 10 less than Waskom.
- Tatum, 47 km west: 1,386 kWh per kW, 18 less than Waskom.
- Hallsville, 48 km west: 1,389 kWh per kW, 15 less than Waskom.
- Easton, 51 km west: 1,397 kWh per kW, 7 less than Waskom.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 256 km to the west, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Waskom models 96 kWh per kW (6.4%) below it. Waskom lies 0.31 degrees of latitude south of Dallas, which on sun angle alone would point the other way, so clouds, haze and the weather station's record carry the difference. The weather station for Waskom is 1.1 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Dallas, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 310 km west, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Waskom runs 131 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Harrison 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.
- Panola-Harrison Elec Coop, Inc: 10.66¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 9,432 residential customers across 2 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 1,404 kWh would come to $177 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Waskom 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 $216 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 761969
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 91.6 |
| February | 92.1 |
| March | 120.5 |
| April | 129.1 |
| May | 140.7 |
| June | 133.3 |
| July | 140.6 |
| August | 135.5 |
| September | 122.1 |
| October | 116.1 |
| November | 95.9 |
| December | 86.3 |
| Year | 1,404 |
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 32.48, -94.06 (Waskom, population 1,942). Weather: typical-year data from station 761969, 1.1 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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