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Fixed Rate Electric Plans in Texas

Most of Texas has a competitive retail electricity market: you choose the company that sells you electricity, while a separate delivery utility owns the poles and wires and is not something you choose. Which plans you can actually buy depends on that delivery utility, which is why this site starts with a ZIP code rather than a city.

Plans available through our marketplace

Texas · priced at 1,000 kWh a month.

  • Oncor

    ZIP 75201

    74 plansfrom $1,488/yr

  • CenterPoint

    ZIP 77002

    72 plansfrom $1,392/yr

  • AEP Texas Central

    ZIP 78401

    70 plansfrom $1,464/yr

  • AEP Texas North

    ZIP 79601

    69 plansfrom $1,512/yr

  • Texas-New Mexico Power

    ZIP 77590

    70 plansfrom $1,596/yr

75

distinct plans across the five areas

74 sold in more than one

16

participating providers

$1,392

lowest projected first-year cost found

CenterPoint · ZIP 77002

33

published at 100% renewable

71

with no minimum-usage charge

12-month:
24
24-month:
22
36-month:
14

Sampled at one ZIP code in each of Texas's 5 competitive delivery areas (75201, 77002, 78401, 79601, 77590); 5 returned plans. 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. Which one serves you decides which plans you can buy — and you do not get to choose it.

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
  • Cooperative or city-owned — no retail choice

delivery utilities

About 70% of Texas by land sits outside all five — cooperatives, city-owned utilities like Austin Energy and CPS Energy, and areas outside the competitive market. Households there cannot shop for a plan at all. Only 9 of the 254 Texas counties sit wholly inside one delivery utility, which is why this is a map and not a list.

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 10 · 10 mo · CenterPointLowest sampled$1,39211.600¢/kWh advertised
AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo · CenterPoint$1,41611.800¢/kWh advertised
Atlantex PowerLuminous · 12 mo · CenterPoint$1,41911.826¢/kWh advertised
BKV EnergyVerbena 10 · 10 mo · CenterPoint$1,43111.928¢/kWh advertised
BKV EnergyVerbena 11 · 11 mo · CenterPoint$1,43111.929¢/kWh advertised
AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 13 · 13 mo · CenterPoint$1,44012.0¢/kWh advertised

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

Delivery utilities in Texas

Which one serves your address decides which plans you can buy.

Markets we cover in Texas

Grouped by the utility that delivers the power, because that is what decides which plans are offered. A city boundary and a utility boundary are not the same line — your ZIP settles it for your address.

Browse by plan type

Deliberate landing pages, each about one thing a shopper actually searches for.

Working out what you would pay in Texas

What a ZIP code decides about the plans you are offered, and what a Texas bill actually averages.

Moving or starting new service

Setting up power at a new address is a different job from switching at an existing one.

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.