Sun on a roof in Aransas Pass.

How Aransas Pass comparesderived from the figures above

Where Aransas Pass sits.

Aransas Pass ranks 468th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 62nd percentile. Its 1,531 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May and the weakest are January, December, February; output peaks in July and bottoms out in January. In all, 29.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Port Aransas, 10 km south: 1,544 kWh per kW, 13 more than Aransas Pass.
• Ingleside, 12 km west: 1,531 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Aransas Pass.
• Ingleside on the Bay, 15 km southwest: 1,528 kWh per kW, 3 less than Aransas Pass.
• Rockport, 16 km north: 1,541 kWh per kW, 10 more than Aransas Pass.
• Gregory, 19 km west: 1,540 kWh per kW, 9 more than Aransas Pass.
• Fulton, 19 km north: 1,539 kWh per kW, 8 more than Aransas Pass.
• Corpus Christi, 19 km south: 1,529 kWh per kW, 2 less than Aransas Pass.
• Portland, 23 km west: 1,553 kWh per kW, 22 more than Aransas Pass.
• Bayside, 24 km northwest: 1,515 kWh per kW, 16 less than Aransas Pass.

Against San Antonio

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 221 km to the northwest, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Aransas Pass models 26 kWh per kW (1.7%) above it. Aransas Pass lies 1.55 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 (2.2 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 Houston, 267 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Aransas Pass runs 109 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Aransas Pass runs at least 2% higher in March, May, August, September. It runs at least 2% lower in January, December.

Electricity in Nueces County, San Patricio County, Aransas CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Aransas Pass is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Aransas Pass 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 1,531 kWh at $235 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 Aransas Pass. 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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Starting rate: the Texas residential average of 15.4¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $236 per kW a year as plain multiplication.