Sun on a roof in Chireno.

How Chireno comparesderived from the figures above

Where Chireno sits.

Chireno ranks 1194th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 2nd percentile. Its 1,367 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.2% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• San Augustine, 23 km east: 1,360 kWh per kW, 7 less than Chireno.
• Broaddus, 23 km south: 1,372 kWh per kW, 5 more than Chireno.
• Nacogdoches, 31 km northwest: 1,401 kWh per kW, 34 more than Chireno.
• Huntington, 33 km southwest: 1,365 kWh per kW, 2 less than Chireno.
• Appleby, 35 km northwest: 1,394 kWh per kW, 27 more than Chireno.
• Center, 36 km northeast: 1,385 kWh per kW, 18 more than Chireno.
• Zavalla, 38 km south: 1,357 kWh per kW, 10 less than Chireno.
• Garrison, 39 km north: 1,385 kWh per kW, 18 more than Chireno.
• Lufkin, 41 km southwest: 1,362 kWh per kW, 5 less than Chireno.

Against Houston

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 215 km to the southwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Chireno models 55 kWh per kW (3.9%) below it. Chireno lies 1.71 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 two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.5 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 Dallas, 269 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Chireno runs 133 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

Electricity in Nacogdoches CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery in this county. Where Chireno is on Oncor Electric Delivery's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Chireno may instead be served by a co-op or utility listed below, which sets its own rates; check your bill. For scale only, the median 2025 average price across the 60 Texas retail providers on this site is 15.32¢ per kWh, which would put the modeled 1,367 kWh at $209 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc: 14.05¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 40,593 residential customers across 8 counties.
• Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn: 14.76¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 22,613 residential customers across 4 counties.
• Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc: 13.3¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 18,253 residential customers across 5 counties.
• Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC: 5.64¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 3,545,814 residential customers across 99 counties.

These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Chireno. They are the largest bundled providers, and the largest delivery-only one, 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.

Modeled estimateruns in your browser

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Scale the Chireno 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.