Sun on a roof in Oyster Creek.

How Oyster Creek comparesderived from the figures above

Where Oyster Creek sits.

Oyster Creek ranks 970th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 21st percentile. Its 1,462 kWh per kW is below 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, 29.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Freeport, 7 km southwest: 1,508 kWh per kW, 46 more than Oyster Creek.
• Surfside Beach, 7 km southeast: 1,521 kWh per kW, 59 more than Oyster Creek.
• Clute, 8 km northwest: 1,448 kWh per kW, 14 less than Oyster Creek.
• Quintana, 9 km south: 1,508 kWh per kW, 46 more than Oyster Creek.
• Richwood, 10 km northwest: 1,448 kWh per kW, 14 less than Oyster Creek.
• Lake Jackson, 13 km northwest: 1,423 kWh per kW, 39 less than Oyster Creek.
• Jones Creek, 14 km west: 1,435 kWh per kW, 27 less than Oyster Creek.
• Angleton, 21 km northwest: 1,459 kWh per kW, 3 less than Oyster Creek.
• Brazoria, 23 km west: 1,422 kWh per kW, 40 less than Oyster Creek.

Against Houston

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 88 km to the north, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Oyster Creek models 40 kWh per kW (2.8%) above it. Oyster Creek lies 0.79 degrees of latitude south of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its higher modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.5 km and 2.4 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.

The second-nearest large place is Austin, 275 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Oyster Creek runs 21 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, November.

Electricity in Brazoria CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Oyster Creek is on CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Oyster Creek 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 1,462 kWh at $224 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Jackson Electric Coop, Inc: 14.55¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 15,670 residential customers across 6 counties.
• CenterPoint Energy: 5.41¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 2,529,039 residential customers across 12 counties.

These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Oyster Creek. 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.

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Scale the Oyster Creek 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 $225 per kW a year as plain multiplication.