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Fixed Rate Electric Plans in Texas

Which fixed-rate electricity plans you can buy in Texas depends on your address. Enter your ZIP code to see which ones are available where you live, and what a year on each would cost.

In Texas's competitive electricity market you choose the company that sells you electricity. Not every address in Texas has that choice: Austin, San Antonio and El Paso are among the places where you cannot buy from a competing retailer. Where you do have that choice, a separate delivery utility owns the poles and wires and serves you no matter which retailer you pick. The plans you are offered depend on which delivery utility you have.

On a fixed-rate plan the energy price in your contract stays the same for the whole term. Your total bill does not. In a month when you use more electricity, you pay for more kilowatt-hours at that same price. Texas rules allow a short list of regulated charges to change a fixed price during the term. Each plan's Electricity Facts Label states whether its price can change.

This site compares plans at the usage level you choose and ranks them by projected first-year cost. A plan's average price per kilowatt-hour can differ at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh, so pick the level closest to your own bills.

Every plan shown on this site is a fixed-rate plan. Variable rates, prepaid products, time-of-use plans and bill-credit plans are not listed. Plans with a minimum-usage charge do appear, and each one is labeled in your search results. This site does not show every fixed-rate plan sold in Texas.

Plans available through our marketplace

Texas · priced at 1,000 kWh a month.

  • Oncor

    ZIP 75201

    77 plansfrom $1,584/yr

  • CenterPoint

    ZIP 77002

    73 plansfrom $1,596/yr

  • AEP Texas Central

    ZIP 78401

    75 plansfrom $1,500/yr

  • AEP Texas North

    ZIP 79601

    67 plansfrom $1,500/yr

  • Texas-New Mexico Power

    ZIP 77590

    67 plansfrom $1,800/yr

79

distinct plans across the five areas

78 sold in more than one

18

participating providers

$1,500

lowest projected first-year cost found

AEP Texas Central · ZIP 78401

39

published at 100% renewable

75

with no minimum-usage charge

12-month:
26
24-month:
24
36-month:
14

Sampled at one ZIP code in each of Texas's 5 competitive delivery areas (75201, 77002, 78401, 79601 and 77590), with plans priced at 1,000 kWh per month. These are the plans our marketplace carries at those ZIP codes — not every plan sold in Texas, and not a statewide price list. Prices differ between delivery areas because delivery charges do. Enter your ZIP code for exact availability at your address.

Texas delivery utilities

Five companies deliver electricity across the competitive parts of Texas. The plans you can buy depend on which one serves you, and you do not choose your delivery utility.

Oncor delivery areaCenterPoint delivery areaAEP Texas Central delivery areaAEP Texas North delivery areaTexas-New Mexico Power delivery areaDallas — view plansDallasHouston — view plansHoustonCorpus Christi — view plansCorpus ChristiAbilene — view plansAbileneAustin — served by Austin Energy, no retail choiceAustinSan Antonio — served by CPS Energy, no retail choiceSan Antonio
  • Oncor
  • CenterPoint
  • AEP Texas Central
  • AEP Texas North
  • Texas-New Mexico Power
  • Outside these five delivery territories

delivery utilities

Large parts of Texas sit outside these five delivery territories, including areas served by cooperatives, city-owned utilities such as Austin Energy and CPS Energy, and utilities outside the competitive market such as El Paso Electric. Whether a household can shop for a competing retailer depends on the utility serving the address. Lubbock Power & Light is an important exception: its customers transitioned to retail competition in 2024.

These delivery areas are approximate and are based on the Public Utility Commission of Texas map of transmission and distribution utilities in competitive retail areas published in 2009. Boundaries have changed since then, so the map is for general orientation rather than determining service at a specific address. Areas shown in neutral include cooperatives, city-owned utilities and other locations outside the competitive retail market. Use the ZIP search to identify the applicable electricity market. If a ZIP can correspond to more than one delivery territory, the site asks for clarification rather than guessing. How this map was made, and what it cannot tell you.

Example plans for Texas

Drawn from live inventory at one ZIP code in each of 5 Texas delivery areas, ranked by projected first-year cost at 1,000 kWh a month. Each price is for the delivery area named beside it and does not apply statewide. This is not a price list for Texas: which plans you can buy, and what they cost, depends on your own address.

Fixed-rate plans sampled across five Texas delivery areas, ranked by projected first-year cost, lowest first. Each row shows the delivery area its price came from.
ProviderProjected first year
AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 9 · 9 mo · AEP Texas CentralLowest sampled$1,500Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.5¢/kWh
Chariot EnergySolarize 15 · 15 mo · AEP Texas Central$1,510Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.6¢/kWh
AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo · AEP Texas Central$1,512Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.6¢/kWh
Chariot EnergySolarize 12 · 12 mo · AEP Texas Central$1,522Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.7¢/kWh
Chariot EnergySolarize 18 · 18 mo · AEP Texas Central$1,534Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.8¢/kWh
BKV EnergyVerbena 10 · 10 mo · AEP Texas Central$1,534Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.8¢/kWh

73 more plans in this sample — see everything available at your address

Delivery utilities in Texas

The plans you can buy depend on which one serves your address.

Markets we cover in Texas

Grouped by the utility that delivers the power. A city boundary and a utility boundary are not the same line, so the search asks for your ZIP code. Where one ZIP code covers more than one utility, it asks which one serves you.

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Working out what you would pay in Texas

How your ZIP code affects the plans you are offered, and what the average Texas electricity bill is.

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Understand what you are buying

Plain explanations, no predictions about where rates are going.

Market updates

Texas grid and regulatory developments, read for what they mean for fixed-rate shoppers.