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Sun on a roof in Pine Forest.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Pine Forest at 1,439 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 Pine Forest climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 140, weakest 91: a ratio of 1.54.
How Pine Forest comparesderived from the figures above
Where Pine Forest sits.
Pine Forest ranks 1071st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 12th percentile. Its 1,439 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, June, August and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in February. In all, 28.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Vidor, 7 km southeast: 1,392 kWh per kW, 47 less than Pine Forest.
- Rose City, 8 km south: 1,392 kWh per kW, 47 less than Pine Forest.
- Rose Hill Acres, 14 km west: 1,393 kWh per kW, 46 less than Pine Forest.
- Beaumont, 15 km southwest: 1,401 kWh per kW, 38 less than Pine Forest.
- Lumberton, 18 km northwest: 1,364 kWh per kW, 75 less than Pine Forest.
- Bevil Oaks, 22 km west: 1,387 kWh per kW, 52 less than Pine Forest.
- Silsbee, 23 km northwest: 1,357 kWh per kW, 82 less than Pine Forest.
- Nederland, 24 km south: 1,432 kWh per kW, 7 less than Pine Forest.
- Bridge City, 25 km southeast: 1,442 kWh per kW, 3 more than Pine Forest.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 137 km to the west, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Pine Forest models 17 kWh per kW (1.2%) above it. Pine Forest lies 0.39 degrees of latitude north of Houston, which on sun angle alone would point the other way, so clouds, haze and the weather station's record carry the difference. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.2 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, 357 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Pine Forest runs 44 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November.
Electricity in Orange 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.
- Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc: 14.1¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 21,316 residential customers across 5 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 1,439 kWh would come to $200 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Pine Forest 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 $222 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 762321
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 100.1 |
| February | 90.8 |
| March | 122.7 |
| April | 128.8 |
| May | 139.6 |
| June | 138.1 |
| July | 133.0 |
| August | 133.6 |
| September | 126.2 |
| October | 125.1 |
| November | 104.1 |
| December | 96.4 |
| Year | 1,439 |
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 30.18, -94.04 (Pine Forest, population 505). Weather: typical-year data from station 762321, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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