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Sun on a roof in Silsbee.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Silsbee at 1,357 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 2.2 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 Silsbee climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 131, weakest 88: a ratio of 1.5.
How Silsbee comparesderived from the figures above
Where Silsbee sits.
Silsbee ranks 1209th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 1st percentile. Its 1,357 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, May, June and the weakest are February, December, January; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 28.4% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Lumberton, 11 km south: 1,364 kWh per kW, 7 more than Silsbee.
- Kountze, 14 km west: 1,325 kWh per kW, 32 less than Silsbee.
- Rose Hill Acres, 18 km south: 1,393 kWh per kW, 36 more than Silsbee.
- Pine Forest, 23 km southeast: 1,439 kWh per kW, 82 more than Silsbee.
- Bevil Oaks, 24 km south: 1,387 kWh per kW, 30 more than Silsbee.
- Rose City, 29 km southeast: 1,392 kWh per kW, 35 more than Silsbee.
- Beaumont, 30 km south: 1,401 kWh per kW, 44 more than Silsbee.
- Vidor, 31 km southeast: 1,392 kWh per kW, 35 more than Silsbee.
- Sour Lake, 31 km southwest: 1,404 kWh per kW, 47 more than Silsbee.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 132 km to the southwest, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Silsbee models 65 kWh per kW (4.6%) below it. Silsbee lies 0.56 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 two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.2 km and 2.4 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Austin, 343 km west, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Silsbee runs 126 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Hardin 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.
- Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc: 14.18¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 88,424 residential customers across 10 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 1,357 kWh would come to $188 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Silsbee 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 $209 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 759333
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 97.0 |
| February | 87.6 |
| March | 109.3 |
| April | 121.2 |
| May | 129.8 |
| June | 128.3 |
| July | 131.0 |
| August | 126.3 |
| September | 119.2 |
| October | 116.1 |
| November | 102.1 |
| December | 89.1 |
| Year | 1,357 |
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 30.35, -94.18 (Silsbee, population 6,711). Weather: typical-year data from station 759333, 2.2 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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