Smart Secure 9
9 months · Flat rate
- Pricing
- 5.39¢/kWh energy · No base charge
- Advertised
- 13.1¢ at 500 kWh · 12.7¢ at 1,000 kWh · 12.5¢ at 2,000 kWh
- Cancellation fee
- $20 for each month left (up to $180)
Pricing every plan…
Pricing every plan…
AE Texas sells 16 fixed-rate plans we can price, in 5 parts of the Texas choice market, with contracts of 9 to 36 months. None of them use a bill credit, so their advertised prices hold up better over a year than a bill-credit plan’s would. Delivery charges and any base charge still move the real price, so every table below prices month by month.
AE Texas doesn’t pay WattaWatt anything. We price its plans the same way as every other provider’s, from the Electricity Facts Label.
Price AE Texas's plans on your own 12 months
The tables below use three typical homes. Drop in a bill or type your 12 monthly kWh, and we’ll rank every AE Texas plan against every other plan sold where you live, by what you’d actually pay.
For each part of Texas AE Texas sells in, its cheapest plan for a small, a typical and a large home, priced month by month on a year with a real summer peak, and where that plan lands among every 12-month-or-longer plan we track there. Contracts shorter than a year are priced too, but ranked apart: they end mid-year, often at the summer peak, and nothing says what the next months cost.
Oncor delivery area · 8 AE Texas plans among the 483 we rank here · delivery $4.06 a month plus 6.8673¢ per kWh, included.
| Home | Cheapest AE Texas plan | Real price | Per year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apartment or small home 500 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.9¢ | 14.9¢ | $892 | #100 of 388 +$175 vs Energy Texas |
Typical home 1,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.5¢ | 14.5¢ | $1,736 | #102 of 388 +$290 vs True Power |
Large home 2,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.3¢ | 14.3¢ | $3,422 | #110 of 388 +$581 vs True Power |
Short contracts, ranked apart. AE Texas’s cheapest contract under a year here is Smart Secure 9 (9 months), about $1,520 for a typical home if its price held for 12 months, which it doesn’t promise to.
Every plan in Dallas–Fort Worth, ranked · What counts as a good rate
CenterPoint Energy delivery area · 2 AE Texas plans among the 276 we rank here · delivery $4.90 a month plus 6.5333¢ per kWh, included.
| Home | Cheapest AE Texas plan | Real price | Per year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apartment or small home 500 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.8¢ | 14.8¢ | $888 | #66 of 218 +$178 vs Octopus Energy |
Typical home 1,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.3¢ | 14.3¢ | $1,718 | #68 of 218 +$297 vs Octopus Energy |
Large home 2,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 14.1¢ | 14.1¢ | $3,376 | #74 of 218 +$593 vs True Power |
Short contracts, ranked apart. AE Texas’s cheapest contract under a year here is Smart Secure 9 (9 months), about $1,490 for a typical home if its price held for 12 months, which it doesn’t promise to.
AEP Texas Central delivery area · 2 AE Texas plans among the 263 we rank here · delivery $3.24 a month plus 5.6898¢ per kWh, included.
| Home | Cheapest AE Texas plan | Real price | Per year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apartment or small home 500 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 13.5¢ | 13.5¢ | $812 | #55 of 205 +$159 vs Energy Texas |
Typical home 1,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 13.2¢ | 13.2¢ | $1,584 | #59 of 205 +$258 vs Energy Texas |
Large home 2,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 13.0¢ | 13.0¢ | $3,130 | #59 of 205 +$497 vs True Power |
Short contracts, ranked apart. AE Texas’s cheapest contract under a year here is Smart Secure 9 (9 months), about $1,368 for a typical home if its price held for 12 months, which it doesn’t promise to.
Every plan in Corpus Christi, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley, ranked · What counts as a good rate
AEP Texas North delivery area · 2 AE Texas plans among the 268 we rank here · delivery $3.24 a month plus 5.5751¢ per kWh, included.
| Home | Cheapest AE Texas plan | Real price | Per year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apartment or small home 500 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.6¢ | 15.6¢ | $937 | #98 of 211 +$272 vs Energy Texas |
Typical home 1,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.3¢ | 15.3¢ | $1,835 | #108 of 211 +$491 vs AP Gas & Electric |
Large home 2,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.1¢ | 15.1¢ | $3,630 | #127 of 211 +$981 vs AP Gas & Electric |
Short contracts, ranked apart. AE Texas’s cheapest contract under a year here is Smart Secure 9 (9 months), about $1,607 for a typical home if its price held for 12 months, which it doesn’t promise to.
Every plan in Abilene and San Angelo, ranked · What counts as a good rate
Lubbock Power & Light delivery area · 2 AE Texas plans among the 148 we rank here · delivery $2.50 a month plus 6.008¢ per kWh, included.
| Home | Cheapest AE Texas plan | Real price | Per year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apartment or small home 500 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.4¢ | 15.9¢ | $954 | #47 of 111 +$227 vs True Power |
Typical home 1,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.4¢ | 15.6¢ | $1,878 | #52 of 111 +$454 vs True Power |
Large home 2,000 kWh a month | Smart Secure 36 36 mo · Flat rate · advertised 15.4¢ | 15.5¢ | $3,725 | #54 of 111 +$907 vs True Power |
Short contracts, ranked apart. AE Texas’s cheapest contract under a year here is Smart Secure 9 (9 months), about $1,650 for a typical home if its price held for 12 months, which it doesn’t promise to.
Estimates, as of November 2026. We simulate 12 monthly bills for each of the 483 plans we track from 47 providers, using each plan’s Electricity Facts Label and Oncor’s published delivery charges, on the three usage profiles above. Taxes and fees that aren’t on the EFL are left out, so real bills run a little higher for every plan alike. Listed but not ranked: 35 time-of-use plans ("free nights" and the like), priced by the time of day or week, which a monthly bill doesn't show; and 30 variable-rate plans, with a price that can change every month, so a year ahead can't be priced from today's rate. They’re on Plans we track with their labels. Prices change; check the EFL before enrolling.
Energy charge, base charge, credits and cancellation fee, as printed on each plan’s Electricity Facts Label, which is linked from every plan.
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36 months · Flat rate
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It depends on the plan and on how much you use. For a typical home using about 1,000 kWh a month, as of November 2026: In Dallas–Fort Worth, its cheapest plan for that home is Smart Secure 36, about $1,736 for the year (14.5¢ per kWh all-in), which ranks #102 of the 388 plans we track: $290 a year more than the cheapest plan there, True Value 12 from True Power. In Houston, its cheapest plan for that home is Smart Secure 36, about $1,718 for the year (14.3¢ per kWh all-in), which ranks #68 of the 218 plans we track: $297 a year more than the cheapest plan there, Octo Simple 12 from Octopus Energy. In Corpus Christi, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley, its cheapest plan for that home is Smart Secure 36, about $1,584 for the year (13.2¢ per kWh all-in), which ranks #59 of the 205 plans we track: $258 a year more than the cheapest plan there, No Bull 12 from Energy Texas. The other 2 areas are on this page. Price AE Texas's plans on your own 12 months before choosing, because the order changes with the shape of your usage.
No. All 16 AE Texas plans we track are priced without a bill credit, so the advertised price holds up better across the year than a bill-credit plan's would. Delivery charges, a base charge if there is one, and tiers can still move the real price, which is why we price every plan on 12 months of usage.
AE Texas's plans charge $20.00 for every month left in the contract. The exact fee is on each plan's Electricity Facts Label, linked from every plan on this page. Under Texas rules you owe no fee if you switch in the last 14 days of a fixed-term contract, or if you move and give the provider proof of the move.
AE Texas sells plans in 5 parts of the Texas choice market: Dallas–Fort Worth (Oncor's delivery area, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington); Houston (CenterPoint Energy's delivery area, including Houston, Katy, Sugar Land); Corpus Christi, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley (AEP Texas Central's delivery area, including Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen); Abilene and San Angelo (AEP Texas North's delivery area, including Abilene, San Angelo); Lubbock (Lubbock Power & Light's delivery area, including Lubbock). The delivery utility, not the provider, owns the wires where you live, and every provider's plans in an area pay it the same delivery charge.
No. AE Texas doesn't pay us, and neither does any other provider. We track and price every plan the same way.
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