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Sun on a roof in Dripping Springs.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Dripping Springs at 1,511 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.5 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 Dripping Springs climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 153, weakest 91: a ratio of 1.67.
How Dripping Springs comparesderived from the figures above
Where Dripping Springs sits.
Dripping Springs ranks 644th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 47th percentile. Its 1,511 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, June, August 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
- Bear Creek, 15 km east: 1,519 kWh per kW, 8 more than Dripping Springs.
- Bee Cave, 17 km northeast: 1,485 kWh per kW, 26 less than Dripping Springs.
- Woodcreek, 19 km south: 1,506 kWh per kW, 5 less than Dripping Springs.
- Lakeway, 19 km northeast: 1,500 kWh per kW, 11 less than Dripping Springs.
- Point Venture, 22 km northeast: 1,500 kWh per kW, 11 less than Dripping Springs.
- Hays, 23 km southeast: 1,488 kWh per kW, 23 less than Dripping Springs.
- Briarcliff, 24 km north: 1,498 kWh per kW, 13 less than Dripping Springs.
- Wimberley, 24 km south: 1,484 kWh per kW, 27 less than Dripping Springs.
- Buda, 26 km southeast: 1,498 kWh per kW, 13 less than Dripping Springs.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 34 km to the east, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Dripping Springs models 28 kWh per kW (1.9%) above it. At 0.1 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, 92 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Dripping Springs runs 6 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Dripping Springs runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, November. It runs at least 2% lower in April, May, August, October, December.
Electricity in Hays CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc: 12.75¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 420,753 residential customers across 24 counties.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
- City of San Marcos: 12.73¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 22,362 residential customers across 1 county.
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 1,511 kWh would come to $193 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Dripping Springs 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 $233 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 667589
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 104.4 |
| February | 103.8 |
| March | 132.8 |
| April | 128.3 |
| May | 138.7 |
| June | 145.2 |
| July | 152.6 |
| August | 144.0 |
| September | 132.8 |
| October | 122.5 |
| November | 114.9 |
| December | 91.4 |
| Year | 1,511 |
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 30.2, -98.09 (Dripping Springs, population 10,165). Weather: typical-year data from station 667589, 1.5 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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