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Sun on a roof in Blanco.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Blanco at 1,536 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 Blanco climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 156, weakest 95: a ratio of 1.64.
How Blanco comparesderived from the figures above
Where Blanco sits.
Blanco ranks 436th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 64th percentile. Its 1,536 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Johnson City, 19 km north: 1,530 kWh per kW, 6 less than Blanco.
- Spring Branch, 24 km south: 1,492 kWh per kW, 44 less than Blanco.
- Woodcreek, 31 km east: 1,506 kWh per kW, 30 less than Blanco.
- Round Mountain, 33 km north: 1,553 kWh per kW, 17 more than Blanco.
- Dripping Springs, 34 km east: 1,511 kWh per kW, 25 less than Blanco.
- Wimberley, 34 km southeast: 1,484 kWh per kW, 52 less than Blanco.
- Bulverde, 37 km south: 1,484 kWh per kW, 52 less than Blanco.
- Fair Oaks Ranch, 44 km southwest: 1,498 kWh per kW, 38 less than Blanco.
- Boerne, 46 km southwest: 1,529 kWh per kW, 7 less than Blanco.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 68 km to the east, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Blanco models 53 kWh per kW (3.6%) above it. At 0.2 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, 72 km south, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Blanco runs 31 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Blanco runs at least 2% higher in January, February, April, August, October. It runs at least 2% lower in May.
Electricity in Blanco 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.
- Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc: 12.17¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 40,305 residential customers across 11 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 1,536 kWh would come to $196 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Blanco 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 $237 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 659296
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 109.3 |
| February | 106.4 |
| March | 124.2 |
| April | 139.7 |
| May | 139.5 |
| June | 145.1 |
| July | 151.3 |
| August | 155.6 |
| September | 132.3 |
| October | 129.8 |
| November | 107.3 |
| December | 95.1 |
| Year | 1,536 |
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 30.1, -98.42 (Blanco, population 2,077). Weather: typical-year data from station 659296, 1.1 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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