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Sun on a roof in Anderson.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Anderson at 1,433 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.0 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 Anderson climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 144, weakest 86: a ratio of 1.67.
How Anderson comparesderived from the figures above
Where Anderson sits.
Anderson ranks 1090th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 11th percentile. Its 1,433 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, May, July and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Navasota, 15 km southwest: 1,470 kWh per kW, 37 more than Anderson.
- Plantersville, 22 km southeast: 1,398 kWh per kW, 35 less than Anderson.
- Todd Mission, 30 km southeast: 1,409 kWh per kW, 24 less than Anderson.
- Montgomery, 30 km east: 1,415 kWh per kW, 18 less than Anderson.
- College Station, 32 km west: 1,421 kWh per kW, 12 less than Anderson.
- Iola, 32 km north: 1,464 kWh per kW, 31 more than Anderson.
- Bedias, 33 km north: 1,450 kWh per kW, 17 more than Anderson.
- Magnolia, 39 km southeast: 1,428 kWh per kW, 5 less than Anderson.
- Bryan, 42 km northwest: 1,456 kWh per kW, 23 more than Anderson.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 97 km to the southeast, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Anderson models 11 kWh per kW (0.8%) 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 Houston's.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 170 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Anderson runs 50 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, June, July, August, September, October, December.
Electricity in Grimes CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Entergy Texas Inc.: 13.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 469,094 residential customers across 27 counties.
- Mid-South Electric Coop Assn: 15.37¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 37,251 residential customers across 6 counties.
- San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc: 14.11¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 32,557 residential customers across 8 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 1,433 kWh would come to $199 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Anderson 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 $221 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 720651
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 94.1 |
| February | 86.5 |
| March | 112.2 |
| April | 135.5 |
| May | 144.2 |
| June | 132.8 |
| July | 143.2 |
| August | 144.5 |
| September | 129.0 |
| October | 117.3 |
| November | 106.5 |
| December | 86.8 |
| Year | 1,433 |
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 30.49, -95.99 (Anderson, population 212). Weather: typical-year data from station 720651, 1.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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