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Sun on a roof in Bridge City.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Bridge City at 1,442 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.9 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 Bridge City climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 141, weakest 93: a ratio of 1.51.
How Bridge City comparesderived from the figures above
Where Bridge City sits.
Bridge City ranks 1062nd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 13th percentile. Its 1,442 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 27.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- West Orange, 9 km northeast: 1,448 kWh per kW, 6 more than Bridge City.
- Pinehurst, 11 km northeast: 1,445 kWh per kW, 3 more than Bridge City.
- Groves, 12 km southwest: 1,434 kWh per kW, 8 less than Bridge City.
- Orange, 13 km northeast: 1,436 kWh per kW, 6 less than Bridge City.
- Port Neches, 14 km southwest: 1,411 kWh per kW, 31 less than Bridge City.
- Port Arthur, 15 km south: 1,428 kWh per kW, 14 less than Bridge City.
- Nederland, 17 km southwest: 1,432 kWh per kW, 10 less than Bridge City.
- Vidor, 18 km northwest: 1,392 kWh per kW, 50 less than Bridge City.
- Rose City, 22 km northwest: 1,392 kWh per kW, 50 less than Bridge City.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 152 km to the west, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Bridge City models 20 kWh per kW (1.4%) above it. At 0.24 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 (2.9 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, 377 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Bridge City runs 41 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in April, June, July, August, September, December.
Electricity in Orange 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.
- Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc: 14.1¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 21,316 residential customers across 5 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 1,442 kWh would come to $200 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Scale the Bridge City 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 $222 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 766669
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 101.9 |
| February | 98.7 |
| March | 123.9 |
| April | 131.2 |
| May | 141.0 |
| June | 136.0 |
| July | 136.8 |
| August | 124.3 |
| September | 124.6 |
| October | 124.0 |
| November | 106.1 |
| December | 93.4 |
| Year | 1,442 |
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 30.03, -93.84 (Bridge City, population 9,806). Weather: typical-year data from station 766669, 2.9 km from that point.
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