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Sun on a roof in Agua Dulce.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Agua Dulce at 1,522 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.5 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 Agua Dulce climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 152, weakest 94: a ratio of 1.61.
How Agua Dulce comparesderived from the figures above
Where Agua Dulce sits.
Agua Dulce ranks 536th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 56th percentile. Its 1,522 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Alice, 16 km west: 1,508 kWh per kW, 14 less than Agua Dulce.
- Driscoll, 20 km southeast: 1,549 kWh per kW, 27 more than Agua Dulce.
- Orange Grove, 20 km north: 1,496 kWh per kW, 26 less than Agua Dulce.
- Robstown, 24 km east: 1,551 kWh per kW, 29 more than Agua Dulce.
- Bishop, 24 km southeast: 1,556 kWh per kW, 34 more than Agua Dulce.
- San Patricio, 26 km northeast: 1,497 kWh per kW, 25 less than Agua Dulce.
- Petronila, 30 km southeast: 1,562 kWh per kW, 40 more than Agua Dulce.
- Kingsville, 30 km south: 1,532 kWh per kW, 10 more than Agua Dulce.
- San Diego, 33 km west: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 less than Agua Dulce.
Against San Antonio
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 196 km to the north, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Agua Dulce models 17 kWh per kW (1.1%) above it. Agua Dulce lies 1.68 degrees of latitude south of San Antonio, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its higher modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.5 km and 2.2 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 281 km north, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Agua Dulce runs 39 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Agua Dulce runs at least 2% higher in March, November, December. It runs at least 2% lower in February.
Electricity in Nueces CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Agua Dulce is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Agua Dulce 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 1,522 kWh at $233 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Nueces Electric Cooperative: 9.5¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 31,397 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Nueces Electric Cooperative: 14.46¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 18,506 residential customers across 8 counties.
- San Patricio Electric Coop Inc: 14.16¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 10,087 residential customers across 9 counties.
- AEP Texas Central Company: 5.91¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 793,896 residential customers across 44 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Agua Dulce. 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.
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Scale the Agua Dulce 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 673351
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 102.9 |
| February | 94.5 |
| March | 130.8 |
| April | 133.6 |
| May | 145.0 |
| June | 146.9 |
| July | 152.0 |
| August | 150.4 |
| September | 130.5 |
| October | 125.1 |
| November | 110.2 |
| December | 100.2 |
| Year | 1,522 |
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 27.78, -97.91 (Agua Dulce, population 666). Weather: typical-year data from station 673351, 1.5 km from that point.
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