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Sun on a roof in Nederland.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Nederland at 1,432 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.9 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 Nederland climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 136, weakest 90: a ratio of 1.51.
How Nederland comparesderived from the figures above
Where Nederland sits.
Nederland ranks 1093rd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 10th percentile. Its 1,432 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, 27.9% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Port Neches, 4 km east: 1,411 kWh per kW, 21 less than Nederland.
- Groves, 8 km east: 1,434 kWh per kW, 2 more than Nederland.
- Port Arthur, 13 km southeast: 1,428 kWh per kW, 4 less than Nederland.
- Rose City, 16 km north: 1,392 kWh per kW, 40 less than Nederland.
- Taylor Landing, 17 km southwest: 1,445 kWh per kW, 13 more than Nederland.
- Bridge City, 17 km northeast: 1,442 kWh per kW, 10 more than Nederland.
- Vidor, 18 km north: 1,392 kWh per kW, 40 less than Nederland.
- Beaumont, 19 km northwest: 1,401 kWh per kW, 31 less than Nederland.
- Pine Forest, 24 km north: 1,439 kWh per kW, 7 more than Nederland.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 136 km to the west, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Nederland models 10 kWh per kW (0.7%) 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, 362 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Nederland runs 51 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in February, April, May, June, July, August, September, December.
Electricity in Jefferson 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.
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 1,432 kWh would come to $199 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Nederland 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 $221 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 763457
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 101.6 |
| February | 96.0 |
| March | 123.2 |
| April | 128.0 |
| May | 136.4 |
| June | 134.5 |
| July | 134.6 |
| August | 131.0 |
| September | 127.7 |
| October | 122.9 |
| November | 105.6 |
| December | 90.3 |
| Year | 1,432 |
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 29.97, -94.0 (Nederland, population 18,168). Weather: typical-year data from station 763457, 1.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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