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Sun on a roof in New Braunfels.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in New Braunfels at 1,498 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 New Braunfels climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 152, weakest 93: a ratio of 1.63.
How New Braunfels comparesderived from the figures above
Where New Braunfels sits.
New Braunfels ranks 108th of 157 Texas places modeled here, at the 32nd percentile. Its 1,498 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,518. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.4% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Cibolo, 17 km southwest: 1,496 kWh per kW, 2 less than New Braunfels.
- Seguin, 19 km southeast: 1,498 kWh per kW, 0 the same as New Braunfels.
- Schertz, 20 km southwest: 1,502 kWh per kW, 4 more than New Braunfels.
- Universal City, 25 km southwest: 1,516 kWh per kW, 18 more than New Braunfels.
- San Marcos, 26 km northeast: 1,507 kWh per kW, 9 more than New Braunfels.
- Converse, 27 km southwest: 1,511 kWh per kW, 13 more than New Braunfels.
- Kyle, 40 km northeast: 1,493 kWh per kW, 5 less than New Braunfels.
- San Antonio, 47 km southwest: 1,505 kWh per kW, 7 more than New Braunfels.
- Boerne, 60 km west: 1,529 kWh per kW, 31 more than New Braunfels.
Against San Antonio
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 47 km to the southwest, at 1,505 kWh per kW. New Braunfels models 7 kWh per kW (0.5%) 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 San Antonio's.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 76 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so New Braunfels runs 15 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, New Braunfels runs at least 2% higher in October, November. It runs at least 2% lower in February, April, May, June, December.
Electricity in Comal County, Guadalupe CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
New Braunfels is served by its own municipal utility, City of New Braunfels. Municipal utilities in Texas generally sit outside retail choice, so homes in the city buy from the city utility. Its 2025 residential average was 12.39¢ per kWh, which would put the modeled 1,498 kWh at $186 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Other 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.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
- AEP Texas Central Company: 5.91¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 793,896 residential customers across 44 counties.
These serve areas outside the city utility. 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 New Braunfels 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 $232 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 668047
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 101.7 |
| February | 93.4 |
| March | 123.7 |
| April | 129.2 |
| May | 137.9 |
| June | 141.2 |
| July | 152.0 |
| August | 149.7 |
| September | 132.4 |
| October | 129.7 |
| November | 111.2 |
| December | 95.6 |
| Year | 1,498 |
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 29.7, -98.12 (New Braunfels, population 116,477). Weather: typical-year data from station 668047, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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