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Sun on a roof in Olmos Park.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Olmos Park at 1,522 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 Olmos Park climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 155, weakest 100: a ratio of 1.54.
How Olmos Park comparesderived from the figures above
Where Olmos Park sits.
Olmos Park ranks 536th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 56th percentile. Its 1,522 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Alamo Heights, 2 km northeast: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 less than Olmos Park.
- San Antonio, 3 km west: 1,505 kWh per kW, 17 less than Olmos Park.
- Terrell Hills, 4 km east: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 less than Olmos Park.
- Balcones Heights, 6 km west: 1,499 kWh per kW, 23 less than Olmos Park.
- Castle Hills, 6 km northwest: 1,528 kWh per kW, 6 more than Olmos Park.
- Kirby, 10 km east: 1,495 kWh per kW, 27 less than Olmos Park.
- Windcrest, 12 km northeast: 1,510 kWh per kW, 12 less than Olmos Park.
- Leon Valley, 12 km west: 1,497 kWh per kW, 25 less than Olmos Park.
- Hill Country Village, 12 km north: 1,503 kWh per kW, 19 less than Olmos Park.
Against San Antonio
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 3 km to the west, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Olmos Park models 17 kWh per kW (1.1%) above it. At 0.01 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.4 km and 2.2 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 117 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Olmos Park runs 39 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Olmos Park runs at least 2% higher in February, August, October, November, December. It runs at least 2% lower in March, April, May, June, 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 1,522 kWh would come to $189 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Olmos Park 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 $234 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 657081
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 101.4 |
| February | 108.3 |
| March | 122.7 |
| April | 131.3 |
| May | 137.8 |
| June | 140.8 |
| July | 151.5 |
| August | 154.8 |
| September | 129.6 |
| October | 129.4 |
| November | 113.9 |
| December | 100.5 |
| Year | 1,522 |
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 29.47, -98.49 (Olmos Park, population 2,155). Weather: typical-year data from station 657081, 2.4 km from that point.
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