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Sun on a roof in Bayou Vista.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Bayou Vista at 1,502 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 0.0 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 Bayou Vista climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 147, weakest 91: a ratio of 1.62.
How Bayou Vista comparesderived from the figures above
Where Bayou Vista sits.
Bayou Vista ranks 730th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 40th percentile. Its 1,502 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, August and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Tiki Island, 4 km southeast: 1,490 kWh per kW, 12 less than Bayou Vista.
- La Marque, 7 km northwest: 1,460 kWh per kW, 42 less than Bayou Vista.
- Hitchcock, 9 km southwest: 1,501 kWh per kW, 1 less than Bayou Vista.
- Texas City, 12 km northeast: 1,464 kWh per kW, 38 less than Bayou Vista.
- Galveston, 16 km south: 1,485 kWh per kW, 17 less than Bayou Vista.
- Jamaica Beach, 16 km south: 1,485 kWh per kW, 17 less than Bayou Vista.
- Santa Fe, 17 km northwest: 1,458 kWh per kW, 44 less than Bayou Vista.
- Dickinson, 18 km northwest: 1,457 kWh per kW, 45 less than Bayou Vista.
- Kemah, 24 km north: 1,450 kWh per kW, 52 less than Bayou Vista.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 67 km to the northwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Bayou Vista models 80 kWh per kW (5.6%) above it. Bayou Vista lies 0.46 degrees of latitude south of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its higher modeled output. The weather station for Bayou Vista is 0.0 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Houston, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 292 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Bayou Vista runs 19 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Bayou Vista runs at least 2% higher in January, May, November. It runs at least 2% lower in February, April, June, July, August, September, December.
Electricity in Galveston CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Bayou Vista is on CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Bayou Vista 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 1,502 kWh at $230 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Entergy Texas Inc.: 13.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 469,094 residential customers across 27 counties.
- CenterPoint Energy: 5.41¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 2,529,039 residential customers across 12 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Bayou Vista. 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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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Bayou Vista 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 $231 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 743873
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 106.8 |
| February | 94.3 |
| March | 127.8 |
| April | 131.9 |
| May | 147.3 |
| June | 141.6 |
| July | 146.5 |
| August | 144.1 |
| September | 128.9 |
| October | 125.9 |
| November | 116.6 |
| December | 90.7 |
| Year | 1,502 |
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 29.33, -94.94 (Bayou Vista, population 1,763). Weather: typical-year data from station 743873, 0.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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