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Sun on a roof in Helotes.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Helotes at 1,514 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.2 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 Helotes climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 150, weakest 100: a ratio of 1.49.
How Helotes comparesderived from the figures above
Where Helotes sits.
Helotes ranks 615th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 50th percentile. Its 1,514 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are December, January, February; 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
- Grey Forest, 4 km north: 1,515 kWh per kW, 1 more than Helotes.
- Leon Valley, 11 km southeast: 1,497 kWh per kW, 17 less than Helotes.
- Shavano Park, 12 km east: 1,456 kWh per kW, 58 less than Helotes.
- Balcones Heights, 16 km southeast: 1,499 kWh per kW, 15 less than Helotes.
- Castle Hills, 17 km southeast: 1,528 kWh per kW, 14 more than Helotes.
- Hill Country Village, 18 km east: 1,503 kWh per kW, 11 less than Helotes.
- Hollywood Park, 19 km east: 1,502 kWh per kW, 12 less than Helotes.
- Fair Oaks Ranch, 19 km north: 1,498 kWh per kW, 16 less than Helotes.
- San Antonio, 20 km southeast: 1,505 kWh per kW, 9 less than Helotes.
Against San Antonio
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 20 km to the southeast, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Helotes models 9 kWh per kW (0.6%) 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 San Antonio's.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 120 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Helotes runs 31 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Helotes runs at least 2% higher in February, November, December. It runs at least 2% lower in April, May, September.
Electricity in Bexar CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- City of San Antonio: 12.4¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 888,946 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc: 12.75¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 420,753 residential customers across 24 counties.
- Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc: 11.83¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 95,358 residential customers across 13 counties.
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 1,514 kWh would come to $188 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Helotes 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 652439
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 102.3 |
| February | 107.9 |
| March | 123.0 |
| April | 131.1 |
| May | 137.3 |
| June | 143.0 |
| July | 149.6 |
| August | 148.8 |
| September | 130.0 |
| October | 126.2 |
| November | 114.3 |
| December | 100.5 |
| Year | 1,514 |
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 29.58, -98.68 (Helotes, population 10,223). Weather: typical-year data from station 652439, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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