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Sun on a roof in Shiner.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Shiner at 1,496 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.4 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 Shiner climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 151, weakest 95: a ratio of 1.6.
How Shiner comparesderived from the figures above
Where Shiner sits.
Shiner ranks 783rd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 36th percentile. Its 1,496 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.2% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Moulton, 16 km north: 1,463 kWh per kW, 33 less than Shiner.
- Yoakum, 16 km south: 1,463 kWh per kW, 33 less than Shiner.
- Hallettsville, 22 km east: 1,509 kWh per kW, 13 more than Shiner.
- Gonzales, 29 km west: 1,504 kWh per kW, 8 more than Shiner.
- Flatonia, 29 km north: 1,488 kWh per kW, 8 less than Shiner.
- Waelder, 32 km northwest: 1,485 kWh per kW, 11 less than Shiner.
- Schulenburg, 37 km northeast: 1,482 kWh per kW, 14 less than Shiner.
- Cuero, 38 km south: 1,480 kWh per kW, 16 less than Shiner.
- Weimar, 48 km northeast: 1,495 kWh per kW, 1 less than Shiner.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 112 km to the northwest, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Shiner models 13 kWh per kW (0.9%) 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 Austin's.
The second-nearest large place is San Antonio, 131 km west, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Shiner runs 9 below that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Shiner runs at least 2% higher in November. It runs at least 2% lower in February, March, May, June.
Electricity in Lavaca CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
Providers listed in the county
- Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc: 11.83¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 95,358 residential customers across 13 counties.
- San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc: 14.11¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 32,557 residential customers across 8 counties.
- Jackson Electric Coop, Inc: 14.55¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 15,670 residential customers across 6 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 1,496 kWh would come to $177 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Shiner 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 $230 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 692911
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 103.6 |
| February | 94.7 |
| March | 119.9 |
| April | 135.1 |
| May | 137.8 |
| June | 138.5 |
| July | 151.1 |
| August | 147.1 |
| September | 133.0 |
| October | 124.7 |
| November | 111.8 |
| December | 98.8 |
| Year | 1,496 |
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 29.43, -97.17 (Shiner, population 2,163). Weather: typical-year data from station 692911, 2.4 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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