CenterPoint Fixed Rate Electric Plans
Delivers power across the Houston area and much of the upper Gulf Coast.
What CenterPoint does, and does not, decide
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric 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. CenterPoint keeps doing exactly what it does now.
CenterPoint service area
Delivers power across the Houston area and much of the upper Gulf Coast.
- Oncor
- CenterPoint
- AEP Texas Central
- AEP Texas North
- Texas-New Mexico Power
- Outside these five delivery territories
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
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.
Plans available through our marketplace
the CenterPoint area · sampled at ZIP 77002 in the CenterPoint delivery area, priced at 1,000 kWh a month. These are the fixed-rate plans this marketplace carries — not every plan sold in the CenterPoint area. Enter your own ZIP for what is available at your address.
73
fixed-rate plans carried
17
participating providers
$1,596
lowest projected first-year cost
$1,766
median projected first-year cost
36
published at 100% renewable
69
with no minimum-usage charge
- 12-month:
- 24
- 24-month:
- 22
- 36-month:
- 12
Example plans for the CenterPoint area
A representative sample of live inventory at ZIP 77002 in the CenterPoint delivery area, ranked by projected first-year cost at 1,000 kWh a month. This is not a price list for the CenterPoint 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 9 · 9 moLowest cost | Clear Rate 9 | $1,596Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 13.3¢/kWh | |
| Rhythm EnergySimply Select 6 · 6 mo | Simply Select 6100% renewable | $1,619Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 13.5¢/kWh | |
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo | Clear Rate 12 | $1,632Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 13.6¢/kWh | |
| Rhythm EnergySimply Select 9 · 9 mo | Simply Select 9100% renewable | $1,643Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 13.7¢/kWh | |
| BKV EnergyVerbena 10 · 10 mo | Verbena 10 | $1,653Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 13.8¢/kWh |
68 more plans — see everything available at your address
Areas CenterPoint is known for
Places CenterPoint is commonly identified with. Being listed here means CenterPoint delivers to part of the area — not that it is the only utility that does, and not that every address can shop. Your ZIP is what settles it.
- Houston
- Sugar Land
- Pasadena
- Baytown
- Katy
Markets in the CenterPoint 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.