Fixed Rate Electric Plans in Houston, TX
Houston addresses are generally served by CenterPoint, though parts of the wider metro fall into other territories.
How availability works in Houston
Retail plans in Texas are sold per delivery utility, not per city. That is why this site asks for a ZIP code rather than a city name: two addresses a few miles apart can sit in different delivery areas and be offered different plans at different prices.
Houston addresses are generally served by CenterPoint, but a city boundary and a utility boundary are not the same line, and the edges of any metro are where they disagree. Your own ZIP is the only reliable answer.
The figures below are live inventory sampled at one Houston 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 Houston
Harris County · Texas
Houston is the single largest competitive retail electricity market in Texas, and the city itself is CenterPoint territory. The complication is the metro rather than the city: the Houston area is ringed by addresses served by TNMP to the south-east, by electric cooperatives further out, and by Entergy Texas to the north — and Entergy customers are not in the competitive market at all.
So a "Houston" search covers several genuinely different situations. Inside the city the answer is straightforward; twenty miles out in any direction it may not be, which is why every quote on this site is per ZIP code.
Gulf Coast humidity gives Houston one of the longest cooling seasons in the country. Air conditioning runs into October and starts again in March, so annual usage here is high and relatively flat compared with North or West Texas — and the 2,000 kWh benchmark on an Electricity Facts Label is often the realistic one.
Plans available through our marketplace
Houston · 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 Houston. Enter your own ZIP for what is available at your address.
72
fixed-rate plans carried
15
participating providers
$1,392
lowest projected first-year cost
$1,564
median projected first-year cost
33
published at 100% renewable
68
with no minimum-usage charge
- 12-month:
- 23
- 24-month:
- 21
- 36-month:
- 14
Example plans for Houston
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 Houston: 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 10 · 10 moLowest cost | Clear Rate 10 | $1,39211.600¢/kWh advertised | |
| AP Gas & ElectricClear Rate 12 · 12 mo | Clear Rate 12 | $1,41611.800¢/kWh advertised | |
| Atlantex PowerLuminous · 12 mo | Luminous | $1,41911.826¢/kWh advertised | |
| BKV EnergyVerbena 10 · 10 mo | Verbena 10 | $1,43111.928¢/kWh advertised | |
| BKV EnergyVerbena 11 · 11 mo | Verbena 11 | $1,43111.929¢/kWh advertised |
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