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Sun on a roof in Plantersville.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Plantersville at 1,398 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 0.0 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 Plantersville climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 137, weakest 82: a ratio of 1.68.
How Plantersville comparesderived from the figures above
Where Plantersville sits.
Plantersville ranks 1157th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 5th percentile. Its 1,398 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, July, August and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Todd Mission, 8 km south: 1,409 kWh per kW, 11 more than Plantersville.
- Montgomery, 17 km northeast: 1,415 kWh per kW, 17 more than Plantersville.
- Magnolia, 18 km southeast: 1,428 kWh per kW, 30 more than Plantersville.
- Anderson, 22 km northwest: 1,433 kWh per kW, 35 more than Plantersville.
- Navasota, 23 km west: 1,470 kWh per kW, 72 more than Plantersville.
- Stagecoach, 26 km southeast: 1,429 kWh per kW, 31 more than Plantersville.
- Waller, 30 km south: 1,460 kWh per kW, 62 more than Plantersville.
- Prairie View, 30 km southwest: 1,466 kWh per kW, 68 more than Plantersville.
- Hempstead, 33 km southwest: 1,453 kWh per kW, 55 more than Plantersville.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 75 km to the southeast, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Plantersville models 24 kWh per kW (1.7%) below it. Plantersville lies 0.54 degrees of latitude north of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its lower modeled output. The weather station for Plantersville is 0.0 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Houston, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 181 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Plantersville runs 85 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Grimes 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.
- Mid-South Electric Coop Assn: 15.37¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 37,251 residential customers across 6 counties.
- San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc: 14.11¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 32,557 residential customers across 8 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 1,398 kWh would come to $194 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Plantersville 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 $215 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 723675
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 98.9 |
| February | 85.6 |
| March | 121.4 |
| April | 125.5 |
| May | 137.3 |
| June | 132.2 |
| July | 137.2 |
| August | 132.9 |
| September | 124.4 |
| October | 120.5 |
| November | 100.6 |
| December | 81.6 |
| Year | 1,398 |
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 30.33, -95.86 (Plantersville, population 519). Weather: typical-year data from station 723675, 0.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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