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Sun on a roof in Huntsville.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Huntsville at 1,413 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 Huntsville climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 140, weakest 91: a ratio of 1.54.
How Huntsville comparesderived from the figures above
Where Huntsville sits.
Huntsville ranks 152nd of 157 Texas places modeled here, at the 4th percentile. Its 1,413 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,518. The strongest months are July, May, August and the weakest are February, January, December; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.2% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.4% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Conroe, 42 km south: 1,395 kWh per kW, 18 less than Huntsville.
- College Station, 73 km west: 1,421 kWh per kW, 8 more than Huntsville.
- Bryan, 79 km west: 1,456 kWh per kW, 43 more than Huntsville.
- Brenham, 101 km southwest: 1,469 kWh per kW, 56 more than Huntsville.
- Houston, 102 km south: 1,422 kWh per kW, 9 more than Huntsville.
- Lufkin, 104 km northeast: 1,362 kWh per kW, 51 less than Huntsville.
- Katy, 105 km south: 1,472 kWh per kW, 59 more than Huntsville.
- Fulshear, 117 km south: 1,461 kWh per kW, 48 more than Huntsville.
- Palestine, 117 km north: 1,469 kWh per kW, 56 more than Huntsville.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 102 km to the south, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Huntsville models 9 kWh per kW (0.6%) below 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, 215 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Huntsville runs 70 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Walker CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Entergy Texas Inc.: 13.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 469,094 residential customers across 27 counties.
- Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc: 14.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 88,424 residential customers across 10 counties.
- Mid-South Electric Coop Assn: 15.37¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 37,251 residential customers across 6 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 1,413 kWh would come to $196 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Huntsville 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 15.47¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $219 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 730493
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 92.9 |
| February | 90.6 |
| March | 106.7 |
| April | 127.5 |
| May | 139.2 |
| June | 133.5 |
| July | 139.6 |
| August | 139.2 |
| September | 125.9 |
| October | 121.2 |
| November | 103.2 |
| December | 93.0 |
| Year | 1,413 |
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 30.7, -95.55 (Huntsville, population 49,500). Weather: typical-year data from station 730493, 1.5 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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