AEP Texas Central Fixed Rate Electric Plans
Covers South Texas and parts of the central Gulf Coast, including the Corpus Christi area.
What AEP Texas Central does, and does not, decide
AEP Texas Central is a delivery utility. It owns the poles, wires and meter at your address, reads your usage, and restores your power after an outage. It is not who you buy electricity from, and you cannot switch away from it — it is set by where you live.
What it does decide is which retail plans are offered to you at all, and what the delivery portion of your bill costs. Two identical-looking plans in different delivery areas are genuinely different products.
Switching retailer never changes your delivery utility, never involves work at your home, and never interrupts your service. AEP Texas Central keeps doing exactly what it does now.
AEP Texas Central service area
Covers South Texas and parts of the central Gulf Coast, including the Corpus Christi area.
- Oncor
- CenterPoint
- AEP Texas Central
- AEP Texas North
- Texas-New Mexico Power
- Cooperative or city-owned — no retail choice
delivery utilities
- OncorServes part of 75 Texas counties, and all of 6
- CenterPointServes part of 10 Texas counties, and all of 2
- AEP Texas CentralServes part of 39 Texas counties, and all of 1
- AEP Texas NorthServes part of 44 Texas counties
- Texas-New Mexico PowerServes part of 31 Texas counties
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.
Plans available through our marketplace
the AEP Texas Central area · sampled at ZIP 78401 in the AEP Texas Central delivery area, priced at 1,000 kWh a month. These are the fixed-rate plans this marketplace carries — not every plan sold in the AEP Texas Central area. Enter your own ZIP for what is available at your address.
70
fixed-rate plans carried
14
participating providers
$1,464
lowest projected first-year cost
$1,634
median projected first-year cost
31
published at 100% renewable
66
with no minimum-usage charge
- 12-month:
- 22
- 24-month:
- 21
- 36-month:
- 13
Example plans for the AEP Texas Central area
A representative sample of live inventory at ZIP 78401 in the AEP Texas Central delivery area, ranked by projected first-year cost at 1,000 kWh a month. This is not a price list for the AEP Texas Central area: which plans you can buy, and what they cost, depends on your own address. Enter your ZIP to see and enroll in what is offered at yours.
| Provider | Plan | Term | Projected first year |
|---|---|---|---|
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 11 · 11 moLowest cost | Clear Rate 11 | $1,46412.2¢/kWh advertised | |
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo | Clear Rate 12 | $1,47612.3¢/kWh advertised | |
| Atlantex PowerLuminous · 12 mo | Luminous | $1,48112.341¢/kWh advertised | |
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 13 · 13 mo | Clear Rate 13 | $1,48812.4¢/kWh advertised | |
| Good CharlieGoodEnergy 12 · 12 mo | GoodEnergy 12 | $1,49412.446¢/kWh advertised |
65 more plans — see everything available at your address
Areas AEP Texas Central is known for
Places commonly served by AEP Texas Central. A city and a utility boundary are not the same line — parts of any of these can sit in another territory, and your ZIP is what settles it.
- Corpus Christi
- Laredo
- McAllen
- Harlingen
- Brownsville
- Victoria
Markets in the AEP Texas Central area with their own page
A city boundary and a utility boundary are not the same line — check your ZIP for your address.
Other Texas delivery utilities
What decides what you pay
Which plans a ZIP code makes available, and what a Texas electricity bill actually averages.