Sun on a roof in Shady Shores.

How Shady Shores comparesderived from the figures above

Where Shady Shores sits.

Shady Shores ranks 565th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 54th percentile. Its 1,519 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are December, February, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in December. In all, 30.1% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Lake Dallas, 3 km south: 1,517 kWh per kW, 2 less than Shady Shores.
• Oak Point, 4 km east: 1,537 kWh per kW, 18 more than Shady Shores.
• Corinth, 4 km southwest: 1,519 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Shady Shores.
• Lakewood Village, 5 km southeast: 1,477 kWh per kW, 42 less than Shady Shores.
• Hickory Creek, 6 km south: 1,517 kWh per kW, 2 less than Shady Shores.
• Cross Roads, 7 km northeast: 1,532 kWh per kW, 13 more than Shady Shores.
• Highland Village, 8 km south: 1,525 kWh per kW, 6 more than Shady Shores.
• Copper Canyon, 9 km southwest: 1,539 kWh per kW, 20 more than Shady Shores.
• Hackberry, 10 km east: 1,551 kWh per kW, 32 more than Shady Shores.

Against Dallas

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Dallas, 48 km to the southeast, at 1,500 kWh per kW. Shady Shores models 19 kWh per kW (1.3%) above it. Shady Shores lies 0.37 degrees of latitude north of Dallas, which on sun angle alone would point the other way, so clouds, haze and the weather station's record carry the difference. The weather station for Shady Shores is 1.4 km from the modeled point, against 2.4 km for Dallas, so part of the gap can come from which station's typical year was used.

The second-nearest large place is Fort Worth, 52 km southwest, where the same model gives 1,535 kWh per kW, so Shady Shores runs 16 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Shady Shores runs at least 2% higher in January, June, September. It runs at least 2% lower in March, April, May, October.

Electricity in Denton CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Shady Shores is on Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Shady Shores 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 1,519 kWh at $233 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Denton County Elec Coop, Inc: 13.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 310,805 residential customers across 6 counties.
• Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX): 15.07¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 117,857 residential customers across 16 counties.
• City of Denton: 13.6¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 63,757 residential customers across 1 county.
• Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC: 5.64¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 3,545,814 residential customers across 99 counties.

These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Shady Shores. 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 $234 per kW a year as plain multiplication.