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Sun on a roof in Sterling City.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Sterling City at 1,701 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 1.5 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 Sterling City climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 158, weakest 111: a ratio of 1.42.
How Sterling City comparesderived from the figures above
Where Sterling City sits.
Sterling City ranks 112th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 91st percentile. Its 1,701 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are April, March, July and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in April and bottoms out in December. In all, 27.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Forsan, 47 km northwest: 1,701 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Sterling City.
- Robert Lee, 48 km east: 1,662 kWh per kW, 39 less than Sterling City.
- Westbrook, 58 km north: 1,701 kWh per kW, 0 the same as Sterling City.
- Coahoma, 59 km northwest: 1,703 kWh per kW, 2 more than Sterling City.
- Colorado City, 63 km north: 1,696 kWh per kW, 5 less than Sterling City.
- Big Spring, 65 km northwest: 1,716 kWh per kW, 15 more than Sterling City.
- Bronte, 65 km east: 1,649 kWh per kW, 52 less than Sterling City.
- Mertzon, 66 km south: 1,654 kWh per kW, 47 less than Sterling City.
- San Angelo, 68 km southeast: 1,652 kWh per kW, 49 less than Sterling City.
Against Austin
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Austin, 353 km to the southeast, at 1,483 kWh per kW. Sterling City models 218 kWh per kW (14.7%) above it. Sterling City lies 1.54 degrees of latitude north of Austin, which on sun angle alone would point the other way, so clouds, haze and the weather station's record carry the difference. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (1.5 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 San Antonio, 355 km southeast, where the same model gives 1,505 kWh per kW, so Sterling City runs 196 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Sterling City runs at least 2% higher in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Electricity in Sterling CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery and AEP Texas North in this county. Where Sterling City is on Oncor Electric Delivery and AEP Texas North's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Sterling City 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 1,701 kWh at $261 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Concho Valley Elec Coop Inc: 13.5¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 12,230 residential customers across 10 counties.
- 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 Sterling City. 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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Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Sterling City 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 $262 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 589337
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 120.7 |
| February | 121.3 |
| March | 157.7 |
| April | 157.9 |
| May | 155.2 |
| June | 156.6 |
| July | 157.1 |
| August | 154.6 |
| September | 141.5 |
| October | 141.4 |
| November | 126.2 |
| December | 111.1 |
| Year | 1,701 |
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 31.84, -100.99 (Sterling City, population 1,127). Weather: typical-year data from station 589337, 1.5 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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