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Half of a Texas electricity bill is set by a company you never chose. The delivery utility owns the wires and meters where you live, bills every home there the same regulated rate, and passes that rate through whichever retail provider you pick. The other half, the energy charge, is where the plans compete.
The same plan therefore costs a little more or less depending on the utility at your address, and small homes feel the monthly charge most. The table shows the current charges and what they come to at three usage levels; each utility’s page prices every plan sold on its lines.
Price every plan on your own 12 months
The tables below use three typical homes. Your home isn’t typical. Drop in a bill from your Texas address, or type your 12 monthly kWh, and we’ll rank every plan by what you’d actually pay.
| Utility | Per month | Per kWh | At 500 kWh | At 1,000 kWh | At 2,000 kWh | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Dallas–Fort Worth | $4.06 | 6.8673¢ | $38.40 | $72.73 | $141.41 | Sep 1, 2026 |
| CenterPoint Energy Houston | $4.90 | 6.5333¢ | $37.57 | $70.23 | $135.57 | Sep 30, 2026 |
| AEP Texas Central Corpus Christi, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley | $3.24 | 5.6898¢ | $31.69 | $60.14 | $117.04 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| AEP Texas North Abilene and San Angelo | $3.24 | 5.5751¢ | $31.12 | $58.99 | $114.74 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| TNMP League City, Texas City and other TNMP towns | $7.56 | 7.771¢ | $46.42 | $85.27 | $162.98 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Lubbock Power & Light Lubbock | $2.50 | 6.008¢ | $32.54 | $62.58 | $122.66 | Nov 1, 2026 |
Residential rates as the utilities publish them and as they appear on current Electricity Facts Labels; we check them against the labels each week. The per-kWh figure folds in every usage-based delivery line. Taxes and the few cents of regulatory riders some bills print separately are left out.
A transmission and distribution utility: the regulated company that owns the poles, wires and meters in an area, delivers the electricity your retail provider sells you, and restores power after an outage. Texas has six in the part of the state that chooses its provider: Oncor, CenterPoint Energy, AEP Texas Central, AEP Texas North, TNMP and Lubbock Power & Light. Bills and plan labels also call them TDSPs or simply the delivery company.
Because there is one set of wires to your home, and one company owns it. The Public Utility Commission sets what that company may charge, and every home on its lines pays the same rate whichever provider it buys electricity from. Competition in Texas is in the other half of the bill: the energy charge, which each retail provider sets for each plan.
Your bill names it, usually near the delivery charges or in the fine print. If you don't have a bill yet, your ZIP code tells us on the home page; utility borders don't follow city limits, so a few ZIP codes are split between two. Cities with their own municipal utility (Austin, San Antonio, Denton, Garland and others) and the co-ops are outside the choice market, and no retail provider can sell there.
Yes. The three average prices on every Electricity Facts Label, at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh, include the delivery utility's charges, which is why the advertised price is higher than the plan's energy charge. On your bill they appear as a line of their own, unless the plan quotes one all-in price with delivery folded in. Every price on WattaWatt includes the current delivery charges for the utility at your address.
Yes. A fixed-rate plan fixes the energy charge for the term. The delivery charge is passed through at whatever the utility is allowed to charge, and it changes a few times a year, usually in March and September. Every plan in an area moves by the same amount at the same time, so a change never makes one plan cheaper than another.