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Sun on a roof in Burton.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Burton at 1,486 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 Burton climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 152, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.72.
How Burton comparesderived from the figures above
Where Burton sits.
Burton ranks 853rd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 30th percentile. Its 1,486 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Carmine, 10 km southwest: 1,483 kWh per kW, 3 less than Burton.
- Round Top, 17 km southwest: 1,492 kWh per kW, 6 more than Burton.
- Somerville, 19 km north: 1,470 kWh per kW, 16 less than Burton.
- Brenham, 20 km east: 1,469 kWh per kW, 17 less than Burton.
- Industry, 26 km south: 1,459 kWh per kW, 27 less than Burton.
- Giddings, 32 km west: 1,497 kWh per kW, 11 more than Burton.
- Fayetteville, 32 km south: 1,492 kWh per kW, 6 more than Burton.
- Snook, 36 km north: 1,458 kWh per kW, 28 less than Burton.
- Caldwell, 39 km north: 1,492 kWh per kW, 6 more than Burton.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 111 km to the west, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Burton models 3 kWh per kW (0.2%) above it. The two figures are within 1 percent, which is about the size of the difference you get from two neighboring weather stations alone, so this page's result is effectively the same as Austin's.
The second-nearest large place is Houston, 125 km east, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Burton runs 64 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Burton runs at least 2% higher in April. It runs at least 2% lower in January, March, May, June, August, September, December.
Electricity in Washington 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.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
- Fayette Electric Coop, Inc: 12.53¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 14,439 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 1,486 kWh would come to $206 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Burton 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 $229 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 706865
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 98.8 |
| February | 99.0 |
| March | 116.0 |
| April | 139.0 |
| May | 140.0 |
| June | 142.0 |
| July | 152.3 |
| August | 146.0 |
| September | 129.5 |
| October | 127.5 |
| November | 108.1 |
| December | 88.3 |
| Year | 1,486 |
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 30.19, -96.6 (Burton, population 286). Weather: typical-year data from station 706865, 2.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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