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Sun on a roof in Cottonwood.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Cottonwood at 1,507 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.9 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 Cottonwood climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 155, weakest 99: a ratio of 1.57.
How Cottonwood comparesderived from the figures above
Where Cottonwood sits.
Cottonwood ranks 689th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 44th percentile. Its 1,507 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.9% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Rosser, 5 km west: 1,500 kWh per kW, 7 less than Cottonwood.
- Grays Prairie, 5 km northeast: 1,486 kWh per kW, 21 less than Cottonwood.
- Scurry, 7 km north: 1,497 kWh per kW, 10 less than Cottonwood.
- Oak Grove, 12 km northeast: 1,514 kWh per kW, 7 more than Cottonwood.
- Kemp, 16 km east: 1,497 kWh per kW, 10 less than Cottonwood.
- Kaufman, 17 km northeast: 1,501 kWh per kW, 6 less than Cottonwood.
- Combine, 19 km northwest: 1,505 kWh per kW, 2 less than Cottonwood.
- Seven Points, 20 km southeast: 1,480 kWh per kW, 27 less than Cottonwood.
- Crandall, 20 km north: 1,502 kWh per kW, 5 less than Cottonwood.
Against Dallas
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 51 km to the northwest, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Cottonwood models 7 kWh per kW (0.5%) 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 Dallas's.
The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 96 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Cottonwood runs 28 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Cottonwood runs at least 2% higher in September, December. It runs at least 2% lower in April, October, November.
Electricity in Kaufman CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery in this county. Where Cottonwood 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 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 1,507 kWh at $231 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Farmers Electric Coop, Inc: 11.95¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 88,221 residential customers across 12 counties.
- Trinity Valley Elec Coop Inc: 12.24¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 82,224 residential customers across 6 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. 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
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Cottonwood 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 $232 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 711872
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.5 |
| February | 99.6 |
| March | 123.6 |
| April | 128.5 |
| May | 145.4 |
| June | 146.9 |
| July | 155.1 |
| August | 149.0 |
| September | 136.1 |
| October | 121.8 |
| November | 101.6 |
| December | 99.1 |
| Year | 1,507 |
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 32.45, -96.4 (Cottonwood, population 252). Weather: typical-year data from station 711872, 1.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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