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Sun on a roof in Surfside Beach.
The PVWatts model puts a generic roof array in Surfside Beach at 1,521 kWh a year for each kW of panels, using typical-year weather from a station 3.0 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 Surfside Beach climbs and falls, and the modeled output follows it.
kWh per kW DC, modeled by PVWatts. Best month 153, weakest 95: a ratio of 1.61.
How Surfside Beach comparesderived from the figures above
Where Surfside Beach sits.
Surfside Beach ranks 549th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 55th percentile. Its 1,521 kWh per kW is above the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are May, August, July and the weakest are December, January, February; output peaks in May and bottoms out in December. In all, 28.9% of the year arrives in June, July and August, less than the 29.3% of the median place.
Closest modeled neighbors
- Quintana, 6 km southwest: 1,508 kWh per kW, 13 less than Surfside Beach.
- Oyster Creek, 7 km northwest: 1,462 kWh per kW, 59 less than Surfside Beach.
- Freeport, 8 km west: 1,508 kWh per kW, 13 less than Surfside Beach.
- Clute, 15 km northwest: 1,448 kWh per kW, 73 less than Surfside Beach.
- Richwood, 17 km northwest: 1,448 kWh per kW, 73 less than Surfside Beach.
- Jones Creek, 19 km west: 1,435 kWh per kW, 86 less than Surfside Beach.
- Lake Jackson, 20 km northwest: 1,423 kWh per kW, 98 less than Surfside Beach.
- Angleton, 28 km northwest: 1,459 kWh per kW, 62 less than Surfside Beach.
- Brazoria, 29 km west: 1,422 kWh per kW, 99 less than Surfside Beach.
Against Houston
The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Houston, 94 km to the north, at 1,422 kWh per kW. Surfside Beach models 99 kWh per kW (7.0%) above it. Surfside Beach lies 0.84 degrees of latitude south of Houston, and the sun stands higher in the sky the further south you go, which matches its higher modeled output. The two weather stations sit a similar distance from their points (3.0 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, 282 km northwest, where the same model gives 1,483 kWh per kW, so Surfside Beach runs 38 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Surfside Beach runs at least 2% higher in March, May, October, November. It runs at least 2% lower in January, July, September, December.
Electricity in Brazoria CountyEIA-861
Electricity prices nearby
EIA lists CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Surfside Beach is on CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Surfside Beach 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 1,521 kWh at $233 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.
Also listed in the county
- Jackson Electric Coop, Inc: 14.55¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 15,670 residential customers across 6 counties.
- CenterPoint Energy: 5.41¢ per kWh, delivery charges only, before the retail energy price, 2,529,039 residential customers across 12 counties.
These utilities serve other parts of the county, which can include parts of Surfside Beach. 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.
Modeled estimateruns in your browser
Size the array, see the kWh.
Scale the Surfside Beach 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 $234 per kW a year as plain multiplication.
PVWatts v8station 736523
Month by month, per kW.
| Month | kWh per kW |
|---|---|
| January | 96.5 |
| February | 99.5 |
| March | 128.0 |
| April | 136.8 |
| May | 153.0 |
| June | 143.4 |
| July | 144.7 |
| August | 152.0 |
| September | 129.4 |
| October | 130.2 |
| November | 112.8 |
| December | 94.9 |
| Year | 1,521 |
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 28.95, -95.28 (Surfside Beach, population 704). Weather: typical-year data from station 736523, 3.0 km from that point.
Getting a measured number
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