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Sun on a roof in Beaumont.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Beaumont at 1,401 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.5 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 Beaumont climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 137, weakest 79: a ratio of 1.73.
How Beaumont comparesderived from the figures above
Where Beaumont sits.
Beaumont ranks 153rd of 157 Texas places modeled here, at the 3rd percentile. Its 1,401 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,518. The strongest months are May, August, April and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in February. In all, 28.0% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.4% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Port Arthur, 32 km southeast: 1,428 kWh per kW, 27 more than Beaumont.
- Baytown, 87 km southwest: 1,416 kWh per kW, 15 more than Beaumont.
- La Porte, 98 km southwest: 1,461 kWh per kW, 60 more than Beaumont.
- Texas City, 102 km southwest: 1,464 kWh per kW, 63 more than Beaumont.
- Deer Park, 103 km southwest: 1,467 kWh per kW, 66 more than Beaumont.
- Pasadena, 108 km southwest: 1,479 kWh per kW, 78 more than Beaumont.
- Dickinson, 112 km southwest: 1,457 kWh per kW, 56 more than Beaumont.
- La Marque, 113 km southwest: 1,460 kWh per kW, 59 more than Beaumont.
- League City, 114 km southwest: 1,440 kWh per kW, 39 more than Beaumont.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 124 km to the west, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Beaumont models 21 kWh per kW (1.5%) below it. At 0.29 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 (1.5 km and 2.4 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 347 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Beaumont runs 82 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December.
Electricity in Jefferson 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.
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 1,401 kWh would come to $195 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Beaumont 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 15.47¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $217 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 759769
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.6 |
| February | 79.4 |
| March | 118.9 |
| April | 131.7 |
| May | 137.4 |
| June | 131.4 |
| July | 128.7 |
| August | 132.8 |
| September | 122.0 |
| October | 125.9 |
| November | 100.9 |
| December | 91.7 |
| Year | 1,401 |
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 30.08, -94.15 (Beaumont, population 112,893). Weather: typical-year data from station 759769, 1.5 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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