Sun on a roof in Gainesville.

How Gainesville comparesderived from the figures above

Where Gainesville sits.

Gainesville ranks 744th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 39th percentile. Its 1,500 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, June, August and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 30.3% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Lindsay, 6 km west: 1,513 kWh per kW, 13 more than Gainesville.
• Callisburg, 14 km northeast: 1,528 kWh per kW, 28 more than Gainesville.
• Valley View, 18 km south: 1,512 kWh per kW, 12 more than Gainesville.
• Road Runner, 19 km south: 1,508 kWh per kW, 8 more than Gainesville.
• Muenster, 21 km west: 1,513 kWh per kW, 13 more than Gainesville.
• Whitesboro, 23 km east: 1,522 kWh per kW, 22 more than Gainesville.
• Collinsville, 24 km east: 1,529 kWh per kW, 29 more than Gainesville.
• Sadler, 28 km east: 1,524 kWh per kW, 24 more than Gainesville.
• Tioga, 28 km southeast: 1,540 kWh per kW, 40 more than Gainesville.

Against Fort Worth

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 97 km to the south, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Gainesville models 35 kWh per kW (2.3%) below it. Gainesville lies 0.86 degrees of latitude north of Fort Worth, 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 (1.4 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 Dallas, 101 km south, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Gainesville runs 0 level with that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Gainesville runs at least 2% higher in June, July. It runs at least 2% lower in January, March, September, October, December.

Electricity in Cooke CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Gainesville is on Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Gainesville 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 1,500 kWh at $230 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Denton County Elec Coop, Inc: 13.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 310,805 residential customers across 6 counties.
• Grayson-Collin Elec Coop, Inc: 17.04¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 97,950 residential customers across 4 counties.
• Wise Electric Coop Inc: 15.33¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 20,682 residential customers across 7 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 Gainesville. 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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Scale the Gainesville 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 $231 per kW a year as plain multiplication.