Fixed Rate Electric Plans in Harlingen, TX
Harlingen, in Cameron County, is served by AEP Texas Central, a delivery utility whose customers choose their own retail electricity provider.
How availability works in Harlingen
Retail plans in Texas are offered by delivery area, not by city. Two addresses in the same city — or even the same ZIP code — can be served by different utilities and have different plan options.
A city boundary, a ZIP code and a utility service boundary are not the same thing. Start with your ZIP code, then check which delivery utility your address is on before you choose a plan.
The figures below are live inventory sampled at one Harlingen postal code. They show what this marketplace genuinely carries in that area — not every plan sold there, and not a quote for your address.
Electricity in Harlingen
Cameron County · Texas
AEP Texas Central also serves McAllen and Edinburg, west of Harlingen. The same retailers sell in all three cities and offer the same plans, so its customers in all three are choosing from one list.
Three electric utilities serve Cameron County, and AEP Texas Central is the only one of them whose customers shop for a retailer. Most of Brownsville is served by Brownsville Public Utilities Board, a city-owned utility that has not opened its territory to retail competition. An electric cooperative holds territory across the county as well, including pockets inside city limits, and cooperative customers generally do not choose a retailer either.
No public agency publishes an average electricity rate for Harlingen. The Public Utility Commission of Texas stopped updating its residential rate comparison in January 2025, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes electricity prices for Texas as a whole rather than for any one city.
Harlingen's normal January temperature is 61°F, and every month of the year has some cooling demand. Compare plans on projected first-year cost rather than on the rate they advertise.
Plans available through our marketplace
Harlingen · sampled at ZIP 78550 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 Harlingen. Enter your own ZIP for what is available at your address.
75
fixed-rate plans carried
16
participating providers
$1,500
lowest projected first-year cost
$1,644
median projected first-year cost
37
published at 100% renewable
71
with no minimum-usage charge
- 12-month:
- 24
- 24-month:
- 23
- 36-month:
- 13
Example plans for Harlingen
A representative sample of live inventory at ZIP 78550 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 Harlingen: 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 | $1,500Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.5¢/kWh | |
| Chariot EnergySolarize 15 · 15 mo | Solarize 15100% renewable | $1,510Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.6¢/kWh | |
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo | Clear Rate 12 | $1,512Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.6¢/kWh | |
| Chariot EnergySolarize 12 · 12 mo | Solarize 12100% renewable | $1,522Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.7¢/kWh | |
| Rhythm EnergySimply Select 6 · 6 mo | Simply Select 6100% renewable | $1,525Avg. price at 1,000 kWh: 12.7¢/kWh |
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