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Sun on a roof in Hilshire Village.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Hilshire Village at 1,428 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.4 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 Hilshire Village climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 142, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.61.
How Hilshire Village comparesderived from the figures above
Where Hilshire Village sits.
Hilshire Village ranks 1105th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 10th percentile. Its 1,428 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Spring Valley Village, 1 km west: 1,428 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Hilshire Village.
- Hunters Creek Village, 2 km southwest: 1,426 kWh per kW, 2 less than Hilshire Village.
- Hedwig Village, 3 km west: 1,426 kWh per kW, 2 less than Hilshire Village.
- Piney Point Village, 4 km southwest: 1,426 kWh per kW, 2 less than Hilshire Village.
- Bunker Hill Village, 5 km southwest: 1,446 kWh per kW, 18 more than Hilshire Village.
- Houston, 10 km east: 1,422 kWh per kW, 6 less than Hilshire Village.
- West University Place, 10 km southeast: 1,422 kWh per kW, 6 less than Hilshire Village.
- Southside Place, 10 km southeast: 1,422 kWh per kW, 6 less than Hilshire Village.
- Bellaire, 10 km south: 1,437 kWh per kW, 9 more than Hilshire Village.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 10 km to the east, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Hilshire Village models 6 kWh per kW (0.4%) 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 Houston's.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 225 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Hilshire Village runs 55 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, December.
Electricity in Harris CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in this county. Where Hilshire Village is on CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Hilshire Village 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 1,428 kWh at $219 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Entergy Texas Inc.: 13.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 469,094 residential customers across 27 counties.
- San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc: 14.11¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 32,557 residential customers across 8 counties.
- CenterPoint Energy: 5.41¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 2,529,039 residential customers across 12 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Hilshire Village. 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 Hilshire Village 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 $220 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 731330
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 92.8 |
| February | 88.8 |
| March | 117.8 |
| April | 127.7 |
| May | 141.5 |
| June | 135.4 |
| July | 140.5 |
| August | 135.4 |
| September | 128.4 |
| October | 123.6 |
| November | 108.5 |
| December | 87.9 |
| Year | 1,428 |
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 29.79, -95.49 (Hilshire Village, population 837). Weather: typical-year data from station 731330, 2.4 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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