Sun on a roof in Smiley.

How Smiley comparesderived from the figures above

Where Smiley sits.

Smiley ranks 912th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 25th percentile. Its 1,478 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are July, August, May and the weakest are February, December, November; output peaks in July and bottoms out in February. In all, 29.6% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Nixon, 13 km west: 1,494 kWh per kW, 16 more than Smiley.
• Stockdale, 31 km west: 1,505 kWh per kW, 27 more than Smiley.
• Gonzales, 32 km northeast: 1,504 kWh per kW, 26 more than Smiley.
• Yorktown, 35 km south: 1,500 kWh per kW, 22 more than Smiley.
• Cuero, 39 km southeast: 1,480 kWh per kW, 2 more than Smiley.
• Nordheim, 39 km south: 1,510 kWh per kW, 32 more than Smiley.
• Runge, 43 km south: 1,505 kWh per kW, 27 more than Smiley.
• Luling, 46 km north: 1,492 kWh per kW, 14 more than Smiley.
• Kingsbury, 46 km north: 1,491 kWh per kW, 13 more than Smiley.

Against San Antonio

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is San Antonio, 88 km to the west, at 1,505 kWh per kW. Smiley models 27 kWh per kW (1.8%) below it. At 0.19 degrees of latitude apart, the two sit at almost the same sun angle, so geometry explains little. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (2.9 km and 2.2 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.

The second-nearest large place is Austin, 115 km north, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Smiley runs 5 below that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in February, May, June, September, October, November.

Electricity in Gonzales CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists AEP Texas Central in this county. Where Smiley is on AEP Texas Central's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Smiley 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 1,478 kWh at $226 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
• Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc: 11.83¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 95,358 residential customers across 13 counties.
• Fayette Electric Coop, Inc: 12.53¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 14,439 residential customers across 8 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 Smiley. 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 $228 per kW a year as plain multiplication.