Sun on a roof in Valley Mills.

How Valley Mills comparesderived from the figures above

Where Valley Mills sits.

Valley Mills ranks 615th of 1220 Texas places modeled here, at the 50th percentile. Its 1,514 kWh per kW is below the Texas median of 1,515. The strongest months are August, July, June and the weakest are December, February, November; output peaks in August and bottoms out in December. In all, 29.5% of the year arrives in June, July and August, more than the 29.3% of the median place.

Closest modeled neighbors

• Crawford, 13 km south: 1,537 kWh per kW, 23 more than Valley Mills.
• Clifton, 17 km northwest: 1,522 kWh per kW, 8 more than Valley Mills.
• Gholson, 22 km east: 1,507 kWh per kW, 7 less than Valley Mills.
• McGregor, 27 km south: 1,536 kWh per kW, 22 more than Valley Mills.
• Oglesby, 27 km south: 1,547 kWh per kW, 33 more than Valley Mills.
• Waco, 29 km southeast: 1,511 kWh per kW, 3 less than Valley Mills.
• Woodway, 29 km southeast: 1,534 kWh per kW, 20 more than Valley Mills.
• South Mountain, 32 km southwest: 1,536 kWh per kW, 22 more than Valley Mills.
• Aquilla, 32 km northeast: 1,505 kWh per kW, 9 less than Valley Mills.

Against Fort Worth

The nearest of the six largest modeled places is Fort Worth, 125 km to the north, at 1,535 kWh per kW. Valley Mills models 21 kWh per kW (1.4%) below it. Valley Mills lies 1.12 degrees of latitude south of Fort Worth, 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 Dallas, 142 km northeast, where the same model gives 1,500 kWh per kW, so Valley Mills runs 14 above that figure. Against the Texas median place month by month, Valley Mills runs at least 2% higher in January, September. It runs at least 2% lower in April, November, December.

Electricity in McLennan County, Bosque CountyEIA-861

Electricity prices nearby

EIA lists Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power in this county. Where Valley Mills is on Oncor Electric Delivery and Texas-New Mexico Power's lines, homes buy energy from a retail electricity provider and the price depends on the plan. Parts of Valley Mills 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 1,514 kWh at $232 per kW a year, plain multiplication and not a savings estimate or an offer.

Also listed in the county

• United Electric Coop Service Inc: 13.91¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 91,268 residential customers across 14 counties.
• HILCO Electric Cooperative, Inc.: 14.82¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 27,850 residential customers across 5 counties.
• Navasota Valley Elec Coop, Inc: 16.26¢ per kWh, a bundled average, 19,861 residential customers across 9 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 Valley Mills. 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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Scale the Valley Mills 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 $233 per kW a year as plain multiplication.