Setting up electricity when you move to Katy

Moving between existing homes is an administrative change: the meter is there, it is energised, and the delivery utility updates who is responsible for the billing. A new build is a different process. Permanent power may depend on an inspection, the builder may have had temporary construction service on the site, and the meter may need to be set.

Those steps sit with the builder and the delivery utility rather than with the retailer you choose, so the useful thing to do early is ask the builder what date permanent power is expected — and enrol against that, not against your closing date.

The Katy postal address covers a lot of ground across Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties. The developed area is CenterPoint territory, but far west of it addresses can fall outside a competitive delivery utility entirely and into an electric cooperative, where there is no retail provider to choose.

That is the one genuine ambiguity here, and a ZIP check resolves it in a few seconds.

New homes in this market tend to be large, well-insulated and often all-electric. That combination produces high total usage with less seasonal swing than older housing — the 2,000 kWh benchmark on the Electricity Facts Label is usually the honest comparison point.

It also means minimum-usage charges rarely bite here, so the structural risk in this market is less about small months and more about committing to a long term before you know the property.

Ask the builder two questions: when permanent power is expected to be energised, and whether the meter has been set. Those answers, not your closing date, are what you should enrol against.

Retailers will normally accept a future start date, so the plan can be chosen calmly in advance rather than on the day the keys arrive. That is the difference between comparing plans and taking the first one that answers the phone.