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Sun on a roof in Snook.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Snook at 1,458 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.0 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 Snook climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 148, weakest 89: a ratio of 1.67.
How Snook comparesderived from the figures above
Where Snook sits.
Snook ranks 992nd of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 19th percentile. Its 1,458 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, May and the weakest are November, December, January; output peaks in August and bottoms out in November. In all, 29.8% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Somerville, 17 km south: 1,470 kWh per kW, 12 more than Snook.
- College Station, 20 km northeast: 1,421 kWh per kW, 37 less than Snook.
- Bryan, 22 km northeast: 1,456 kWh per kW, 2 less than Snook.
- Caldwell, 22 km west: 1,492 kWh per kW, 34 more than Snook.
- Wixon Valley, 33 km northeast: 1,454 kWh per kW, 4 less than Snook.
- Burton, 36 km south: 1,486 kWh per kW, 28 more than Snook.
- Brenham, 37 km south: 1,469 kWh per kW, 11 more than Snook.
- Kurten, 38 km northeast: 1,473 kWh per kW, 15 more than Snook.
- Navasota, 38 km east: 1,470 kWh per kW, 12 more than Snook.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 125 km to the west, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Snook models 25 kWh per kW (1.7%) 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 (1.0 km and 1.5 km), so station distance does little to explain the gap, and the weather record does the rest.
The second-nearest large place is Houston, 130 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,422 kWh per kW, so Snook runs 36 above that figure. It runs at least 2% lower in January, February, March, June, July, September, November, December.
Electricity in Burleson 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.
- Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc: 11.59¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 119,030 residential customers across 14 counties.
- City of Bryan: 10.89¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 62,535 residential customers across 3 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 1,458 kWh would come to $203 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Snook 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 $225 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 710438
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 96.2 |
| February | 96.4 |
| March | 121.7 |
| April | 134.6 |
| May | 143.3 |
| June | 141.7 |
| July | 144.6 |
| August | 148.0 |
| September | 129.2 |
| October | 124.5 |
| November | 88.7 |
| December | 89.7 |
| Year | 1,458 |
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 30.49, -96.47 (Snook, population 551). Weather: typical-year data from station 710438, 1.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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Payback, buyback.
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