Texas Electricity Rate Index
November 2026. Data as of 2026-11-09. Updated monthly.
13.3¢/kWh
The average advertised price of a 12-month fixed-rate Texas home electricity plan in November 2026, for a home using 1,000 kWh a month. Delivery charges are included. Based on 193 plans from 36 suppliers.
This is what suppliers are offering today, not what Texans pay on average.
Key findings
- Lowest: AEP Texas Central areas, including Corpus Christi, averaged 12.17¢.
- Highest: Texas-New Mexico Power areas, including its Texas service areas, averaged 14.84¢, 2.67¢ more.
- Biggest move: This is the first month of the series. Monthly changes start with the next update.
- Offers vs. what households paid: the U.S. Energy Information Administration puts the average Texas residential price at 15.91¢ for August 2026. It covers every Texas home on every kind of contract and utility, including city-owned utilities and co-ops, so it isn't directly comparable. Texas utilities don't publish a price to compare, as utilities in some other states do.
Average rate by delivery area
Your delivery company sets the wires charges in your bill, so prices differ by delivery area. These five rows are the index. Cities in the same area share the same figures.
| Delivery area | Average | Median | Lowest advertised | Plans | Monthly change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor | 13.43¢ | 13.00¢ | 11.90¢ | 39 | Baseline |
| CenterPoint Energy | 13.21¢ | 12.90¢ | 11.70¢ | 39 | Baseline |
| AEP Texas Central | 12.17¢ | 11.80¢ | 10.80¢ | 39 | Baseline |
| AEP Texas North | 12.64¢ | 12.55¢ | 10.90¢ | 38 | Baseline |
| Texas-New Mexico Power | 14.84¢ | 14.80¢ | 11.60¢ | 38 | Baseline |
Average rate by city
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| Abilene | AEP Texas North | 12.64¢ | 10.90¢ | Baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Corpus Christi | AEP Texas Central | 12.17¢ | 10.80¢ | Baseline |
| Dallas | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Fort Worth | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Frisco | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Garland | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Houston | CenterPoint Energy | 13.21¢ | 11.70¢ | Baseline |
| Irving | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Killeen | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Midland | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Odessa | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Plano | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| San Angelo | AEP Texas North | 12.64¢ | 10.90¢ | Baseline |
| Tyler | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Waco | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
| Wichita Falls | Oncor | 13.43¢ | 11.90¢ | Baseline |
Cities without an index figure
- El Paso: El Paso is served by El Paso Electric, which runs its own balancing area outside ERCOT. Texas retail electricity choice operates within the ERCOT market, so every El Paso home buys its electricity from El Paso Electric.
- Austin: Most of Austin is served by Austin Energy, a city-owned utility that has not opted in to Texas retail choice, so Austin Energy customers cannot switch providers. Parts of north and northwest Austin, and several suburbs north and east of the city including Pflugerville, Round Rock, Georgetown, Hutto and Manor, are in Oncor's delivery area and do have retail choice. The utility named on your bill is the reliable answer, because ZIP codes can cross utility boundaries.
- San Antonio: San Antonio is served by CPS Energy, a city-owned utility that has not opted in to Texas retail choice, so CPS Energy customers cannot choose another electricity provider.
- Lubbock: Lubbock opened to retail electricity choice in 2025, and Lubbock Power & Light now delivers power for the retail electric providers residents choose. We don't have competitive offers for your area loaded yet, so there are no plans to compare here today.
Statewide trend
The series starts in November 2026, so this first point is the baseline.
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| Month | Statewide average | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 13.25¢ | 193 |
Methodology
- Measure: the average price at 1,000 kWh a month from each plan's Electricity Facts Label. It includes energy, delivery and monthly fees.
- Plans counted: residential, 12-month fixed-rate plans, the standard term for comparing electricity offers. Plans of other lengths are left out; averages for all terms and for terms of 12 months or longer are in the JSON download.
- Included: fixed-rate plans with time-of-day pricing, such as free-nights plans, at their facts-label price for 1,000 kWh.
- Every supplier counts the same way: each plan is counted once, at the public price any customer can get, whether or not FindEnergyRates has a business relationship with that supplier.
- Plans left out: prepaid plans, and plans whose price depends on usage, such as bill-credit plans, which can look cheap at exactly 1,000 kWh and cost far more at other usage levels.
- Weighting: each plan counts once. The averages are not weighted by how many customers chose a plan, because that isn't published.
- Sample size: about 39 plans per delivery area. With samples that size, a monthly change of a few tenths of a cent can come from plans entering or leaving the market rather than from prices moving.
- Source: plans listed by suppliers on the Public Utility Commission of Texas's Power to Choose, plus a smaller number from PowerSetter. Snapshot taken 2026-11-09.
- Check: before each update, every delivery area's average is recomputed independently from the Public Utility Commission's own export. An update doesn't publish if any area differs by more than a quarter of a cent. 137 of the 193 plans in this sample also had their facts label matched to the listed prices.
- City mapping: a city is shown under the delivery company for most of its homes. Your bill names yours, and some ZIP codes cross boundaries.
Cite this data
FindEnergyRates, "Texas Electricity Rate Index," November 2026, https://findenergyrates.com/texas-electricity-rate-index.
Free to use with attribution and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). The EIA figure above is public U.S. government data and isn't covered by this license.
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