Sun on a roof in Orange Grove.

How Orange Grove comparesderived from the figures above

Where Orange Grove sits.

Orange Grove ranks 783rd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 36th percentile. Its 1,496 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, June, May and the weakest are December, January, November; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.0% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Lake City, 15 km northeast: 1,499 kWh per kW, 3 more than Orange Grove.
• San Patricio, 17 km east: 1,497 kWh per kW, 1 more than Orange Grove.
• Mathis, 19 km northeast: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 more than Orange Grove.
• Agua Dulce, 20 km south: 1,522 kWh per kW, 26 more than Orange Grove.
• Alice, 26 km southwest: 1,508 kWh per kW, 12 more than Orange Grove.
• Robstown, 33 km southeast: 1,551 kWh per kW, 55 more than Orange Grove.
• Odem, 34 km east: 1,511 kWh per kW, 15 more than Orange Grove.
• San Diego, 37 km southwest: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 more than Orange Grove.
• Driscoll, 37 km southeast: 1,549 kWh per kW, 53 more than Orange Grove.

Against San Antonio

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 176 km to the north, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Orange Grove 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 San Antonio's.

The second-nearest large place is Austin, 261 km north, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Orange Grove runs 13 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Orange Grove runs at least 2% higher in February, October. It runs at least 2% lower in January, March, August, September, December.

Electricity in Jim Wells CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Orange Grove is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Orange Grove 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 1,496 kWh at $229 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Nueces Electric Cooperative: 9.5¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 31,397 residential customers across 8 counties.
• Nueces Electric Cooperative: 14.46¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 18,506 residential customers across 8 counties.
• San Patricio Electric Coop Inc: 14.16¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 10,087 residential customers across 9 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 utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Orange Grove. 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

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Scale the Orange Grove 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 $230 per kW a year as plain multiplication.