Sun on a roof in Cottonwood Shores.

How Cottonwood Shores comparesderived from the figures above

Where Cottonwood Shores sits.

Cottonwood Shores ranks 497th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 59th percentile. Its 1,527 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are November, February, December; output peaks in July and bottoms out in November. In all, 29.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Meadowlakes, 3 km east: 1,533 kWh per kW, 6 more than Cottonwood Shores.
• Marble Falls, 5 km east: 1,507 kWh per kW, 20 less than Cottonwood Shores.
• Granite Shoals, 5 km northwest: 1,524 kWh per kW, 3 less than Cottonwood Shores.
• Horseshoe Bay, 5 km southwest: 1,546 kWh per kW, 19 more than Cottonwood Shores.
• Highland Haven, 9 km northwest: 1,524 kWh per kW, 3 less than Cottonwood Shores.
• Sunrise Beach Village, 9 km west: 1,526 kWh per kW, 1 less than Cottonwood Shores.
• Double Horn, 12 km southeast: 1,517 kWh per kW, 10 less than Cottonwood Shores.
• Round Mountain, 19 km south: 1,553 kWh per kW, 26 more than Cottonwood Shores.
• Burnet, 23 km north: 1,540 kWh per kW, 13 more than Cottonwood Shores.

Against Austin

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 63 km to the southeast, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Cottonwood Shores models 44 kWh per kW (3.0%) above it. At 0.26 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 (1.5 km and 1.5 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.

The second-nearest large place is San Antonio, 124 km south, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Cottonwood Shores runs 22 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Cottonwood Shores runs at least 2% higher in January, March, December. It runs at least 2% lower in May, November.

Electricity in Burnet CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery in this county. Where Cottonwood Shores is on Oncor Electric Delivery's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Cottonwood Shores 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 1,527 kWh at $234 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc: 12.75¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 420,753 residential customers across 24 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 Cottonwood Shores. 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.

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Starting rate: the Texas residential average of 15.4¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $235 per kW a year as plain multiplication.