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Sun on a roof in Bear Creek.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Bear Creek at 1,519 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.1 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 Bear Creek climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 153, weakest 96: a ratio of 1.6.
How Bear Creek comparesderived from the figures above
Where Bear Creek sits.
Bear Creek ranks 565th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 54th percentile. Its 1,519 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. 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
- Hays, 9 km southeast: 1,488 kWh per kW, 31 less than Bear Creek.
- San Leanna, 12 km east: 1,483 kWh per kW, 36 less than Bear Creek.
- Sunset Valley, 13 km northeast: 1,488 kWh per kW, 31 less than Bear Creek.
- Buda, 14 km southeast: 1,498 kWh per kW, 21 less than Bear Creek.
- Bee Cave, 15 km north: 1,485 kWh per kW, 34 less than Bear Creek.
- Dripping Springs, 15 km west: 1,511 kWh per kW, 8 less than Bear Creek.
- Mountain City, 16 km south: 1,493 kWh per kW, 26 less than Bear Creek.
- West Lake Hills, 17 km northeast: 1,481 kWh per kW, 38 less than Bear Creek.
- Rollingwood, 18 km northeast: 1,490 kWh per kW, 29 less than Bear Creek.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 23 km to the northeast, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Bear Creek models 36 kWh per kW (2.4%) above it. At 0.12 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.1 km and 1.5 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is San Antonio, 98 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Bear Creek runs 14 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Bear Creek runs at least 2% higher in January, March, August, October, November. It runs at least 2% lower in May, September.
Electricity in Hays CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc: 12.75¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 420,753 residential customers across 24 counties.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
- City of San Marcos: 12.73¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 22,362 residential customers across 1 county.
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 1,519 kWh would come to $194 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Bear Creek 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 672632
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 108.7 |
| February | 101.8 |
| March | 128.3 |
| April | 133.3 |
| May | 136.0 |
| June | 143.0 |
| July | 151.9 |
| August | 152.6 |
| September | 126.2 |
| October | 131.2 |
| November | 110.3 |
| December | 95.6 |
| Year | 1,519 |
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 30.18, -97.94 (Bear Creek, population 461). Weather: typical-year data from station 672632, 1.1 km from that point.
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