Texas Cities & Counties
Compare electricity rates for 877 Texas cities and 4 counties. Click any location to see available plans from PUCT-licensed providers.
Compare electricity rates for 877 Texas cities and 4 counties. Click any location to see available plans from PUCT-licensed providers.
A Texas city electricity rate combines two costs: the supply rate from your Retail Electric Provider (REP) and the delivery rate from the Transmission and Distribution Utility (TDU) that serves that city. The city page lists every available REP plan at your ZIP. The utility page lists only the TDU and its passed-through delivery charge. In Dallas, Oncor delivers — so Dallas city rates use Oncor delivery. In Houston, CenterPoint delivers. Austin and San Antonio sit outside ERCOT's deregulated market and use municipal utilities (Austin Energy, CPS Energy) with fixed rates set by city councils, not the Public Utility Commission of Texas. City pages reflect the real all-in cost; utility pages explain the delivery half.
Texas cities inside the deregulated ERCOT market get the full plan catalog — between 60 and 120 active REPs depending on the ZIP. Cities served by Oncor (Dallas, Fort Worth, Tyler, Waco), CenterPoint (Houston, Galveston), AEP Texas (Corpus Christi, McAllen, Abilene), TNMP (parts of the Gulf Coast and Permian Basin), and LP&L (Lubbock) all qualify. Cities outside ERCOT or inside a municipal utility footprint — Austin (Austin Energy), San Antonio (CPS Energy), El Paso (El Paso Electric), Brownsville (BPUB), Garland (GP&L) — keep a regulated single-provider model. Cooperative-served rural areas often see fewer competitive options too. Plan count tracks deregulation, not city size.
Within ERCOT, the cheapest city for residential electricity rotates monthly based on which TDU territory has the lowest seasonal delivery rate plus the most aggressive REP competition. Oncor-served cities (Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano) typically run a half-cent to one cent per kWh below CenterPoint-served Houston because Oncor delivery is lower. AEP Texas Central (Corpus Christi area) and TNMP pockets often post competitive supply rates too. Municipally served cities like San Antonio (CPS Energy) sometimes show lower published averages, but customers there can't shop — the rate is set by council. The honest answer: the cheapest plan for your usage at your address beats any city ranking.