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Sun on a roof in Browndell.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Browndell at 1,369 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 0.0 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 Browndell climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 137, weakest 83: a ratio of 1.65.
How Browndell comparesderived from the figures above
Where Browndell sits.
Browndell ranks 1192nd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 2nd percentile. Its 1,369 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, August and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in May 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
- Pineland, 13 km north: 1,362 kWh per kW, 7 less than Browndell.
- Jasper, 23 km south: 1,331 kWh per kW, 38 less than Browndell.
- Hemphill, 26 km northeast: 1,372 kWh per kW, 3 more than Browndell.
- Broaddus, 33 km northwest: 1,372 kWh per kW, 3 more than Browndell.
- Newton, 38 km southeast: 1,345 kWh per kW, 24 less than Browndell.
- Zavalla, 42 km west: 1,357 kWh per kW, 12 less than Browndell.
- San Augustine, 46 km north: 1,360 kWh per kW, 9 less than Browndell.
- Colmesneil, 49 km southwest: 1,358 kWh per kW, 11 less than Browndell.
- Kirbyville, 53 km south: 1,369 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Browndell.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 201 km to the southwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Browndell models 53 kWh per kW (3.7%) below it. Browndell lies 1.34 degrees of latitude north of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The weather station for Browndell is 0.0 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Houston, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Dallas, 321 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Browndell runs 131 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Jasper 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.
- Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc: 14.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 88,424 residential customers across 10 counties.
- Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc: 14.05¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 40,593 residential customers across 8 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 1,369 kWh would come to $190 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Browndell 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 $211 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 763369
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 92.9 |
| February | 88.5 |
| March | 102.8 |
| April | 123.1 |
| May | 136.6 |
| June | 132.6 |
| July | 135.2 |
| August | 134.2 |
| September | 127.3 |
| October | 112.6 |
| November | 100.6 |
| December | 82.9 |
| Year | 1,369 |
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 31.13, -93.98 (Browndell, population 156). Weather: typical-year data from station 763369, 0.0 km from that point.
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