Sun on a roof in Bayside.

How Bayside comparesderived from the figures above

Where Bayside sits.

Bayside ranks 609th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 50th percentile. Its 1,515 kWh per kW is level with the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in August 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

• Rockport, 17 km east: 1,541 kWh per kW, 26 more than Bayside.
• Fulton, 17 km east: 1,539 kWh per kW, 24 more than Bayside.
• Woodsboro, 20 km northwest: 1,494 kWh per kW, 21 less than Bayside.
• Gregory, 22 km south: 1,540 kWh per kW, 25 more than Bayside.
• Taft, 22 km southwest: 1,531 kWh per kW, 16 more than Bayside.
• Aransas Pass, 24 km southeast: 1,531 kWh per kW, 16 more than Bayside.
• Refugio, 24 km north: 1,492 kWh per kW, 23 less than Bayside.
• Ingleside, 26 km south: 1,531 kWh per kW, 16 more than Bayside.
• Portland, 26 km southwest: 1,553 kWh per kW, 38 more than Bayside.

Against San Antonio

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 198 km to the northwest, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Bayside models 10 kWh per kW (0.7%) 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 San Antonio's.

The second-nearest large place is Austin, 250 km north, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Bayside runs 32 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Bayside runs at least 2% higher in October. It runs at least 2% lower in March, April, July.

Electricity in Refugio CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Bayside is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Bayside 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 1,515 kWh at $232 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Victoria Electric Coop, Inc: 12.4¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 21,716 residential customers across 6 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 Bayside. 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.

Modeled estimateruns in your browser

Size the array, see the kWh.

Scale the Bayside 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 $233 per kW a year as plain multiplication.