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Sun on a roof in Santa Clara.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Santa Clara at 1,508 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.9 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 Santa Clara climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 153, weakest 93: a ratio of 1.66.
How Santa Clara comparesderived from the figures above
Where Santa Clara sits.
Santa Clara ranks 674th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 45th percentile. Its 1,508 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Marion, 3 km southeast: 1,496 kWh per kW, 12 less than Santa Clara.
- Cibolo, 6 km west: 1,496 kWh per kW, 12 less than Santa Clara.
- Schertz, 9 km west: 1,502 kWh per kW, 6 less than Santa Clara.
- New Berlin, 12 km southeast: 1,499 kWh per kW, 9 less than Santa Clara.
- New Braunfels, 13 km north: 1,498 kWh per kW, 10 less than Santa Clara.
- Garden Ridge, 14 km northwest: 1,502 kWh per kW, 6 less than Santa Clara.
- Universal City, 15 km west: 1,516 kWh per kW, 8 more than Santa Clara.
- Selma, 15 km west: 1,524 kWh per kW, 16 more than Santa Clara.
- Converse, 16 km southwest: 1,511 kWh per kW, 3 more than Santa Clara.
Against San Antonio
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 38 km to the west, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Santa Clara models 3 kWh per kW (0.2%) above 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, 88 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Santa Clara runs 25 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Santa Clara runs at least 2% higher in March, August, November. It runs at least 2% lower in February, May, June.
Electricity in Guadalupe CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Santa Clara is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Santa Clara 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 1,508 kWh at $231 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- City of San Antonio: 12.4¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 888,946 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc: 12.75¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 420,753 residential customers across 24 counties.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 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 Santa Clara. 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
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Santa Clara 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 $232 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 666565
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 103.0 |
| February | 92.6 |
| March | 130.9 |
| April | 137.2 |
| May | 137.1 |
| June | 141.1 |
| July | 150.3 |
| August | 153.4 |
| September | 131.0 |
| October | 124.9 |
| November | 111.0 |
| December | 95.8 |
| Year | 1,508 |
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 29.59, -98.16 (Santa Clara, population 753). Weather: typical-year data from station 666565, 2.9 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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