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 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 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.
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 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 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 |
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