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Sun on a roof in Caldwell.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Caldwell at 1,492 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 Caldwell climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 149, weakest 90: a ratio of 1.65.
How Caldwell comparesderived from the figures above
Where Caldwell sits.
Caldwell ranks 807th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 34th percentile. Its 1,492 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.7% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Snook, 22 km east: 1,458 kWh per kW, 34 less than Caldwell.
- Milano, 25 km northwest: 1,487 kWh per kW, 5 less than Caldwell.
- Somerville, 26 km southeast: 1,470 kWh per kW, 22 less than Caldwell.
- Lexington, 33 km southwest: 1,492 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Caldwell.
- Rockdale, 33 km northwest: 1,498 kWh per kW, 6 more than Caldwell.
- Bryan, 34 km northeast: 1,456 kWh per kW, 36 less than Caldwell.
- College Station, 39 km east: 1,421 kWh per kW, 71 less than Caldwell.
- Burton, 39 km south: 1,486 kWh per kW, 6 less than Caldwell.
- Hearne, 40 km north: 1,484 kWh per kW, 8 less than Caldwell.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 104 km to the west, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Caldwell models 9 kWh per kW (0.6%) 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, 150 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Caldwell runs 70 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Caldwell runs at least 2% higher in April. It runs at least 2% lower in January, May, July, November, December.
Electricity in Burleson 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.
- City of Bryan: 10.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 62,535 residential customers across 3 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 1,492 kWh would come to $207 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Caldwell 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 $230 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 704585
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.1 |
| February | 98.9 |
| March | 124.9 |
| April | 138.6 |
| May | 136.4 |
| June | 145.2 |
| July | 148.6 |
| August | 149.4 |
| September | 131.5 |
| October | 126.9 |
| November | 100.9 |
| December | 90.3 |
| Year | 1,492 |
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 30.53, -96.7 (Caldwell, population 4,820). Weather: typical-year data from station 704585, 0.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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