Sun on a roof in Prairie View.

How Prairie View comparesderived from the figures above

Where Prairie View sits.

Prairie View ranks 951st of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 22nd percentile. Its 1,466 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.3% of the year arrives in June, July and August, about the same than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Waller, 5 km east: 1,460 kWh per kW, 6 less than Prairie View.
• Pine Island, 6 km southwest: 1,468 kWh per kW, 2 more than Prairie View.
• Hempstead, 10 km west: 1,453 kWh per kW, 13 less than Prairie View.
• Todd Mission, 25 km northeast: 1,409 kWh per kW, 57 less than Prairie View.
• Magnolia, 27 km northeast: 1,428 kWh per kW, 38 less than Prairie View.
• Stagecoach, 28 km east: 1,429 kWh per kW, 37 less than Prairie View.
• Pattison, 29 km south: 1,477 kWh per kW, 11 more than Prairie View.
• Plantersville, 30 km northeast: 1,398 kWh per kW, 68 less than Prairie View.
• Bellville, 31 km southwest: 1,450 kWh per kW, 16 less than Prairie View.

Against Houston

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 65 km to the southeast, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Prairie View models 44 kWh per kW (3.1%) above it. At 0.29 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The weather station for Prairie View is 1.1 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, 172 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Prairie View runs 17 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in February, March, June, July, August, October, December.

Electricity in Waller CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in this county. Where Prairie View is on CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Prairie View 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 1,466 kWh at $225 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also 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.
• 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 Prairie View. 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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Starting rate: the Texas residential average of 15.4¢ per kWh. At that rate the modeled output is worth $226 per kW a year as plain multiplication.