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Oncor Electric Delivery Company
Oncor is the largest TDU in Texas, serving over 10 million customers across 400+ cities in North, Central, and West Texas. As the transmission and dis...
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric
CenterPoint Energy serves the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fourth-largest city in the United States. With over 2.6 million metered customers...
Texas-New Mexico Power Company
Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) serves scattered service territories across Texas, including parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Central Texas, and the...
AEP Texas Central Company
AEP Texas Central serves South Texas including the Corpus Christi area. The utility delivers electricity to residential and commercial customers in th...
AEP Texas North Company
AEP Texas North serves West Texas communities including Abilene, San Angelo, and parts of the Permian Basin. The utility covers a large geographic are...
Lubbock Power & Light
Lubbock Power & Light recently joined the Texas deregulated market in 2023. LP&L serves the Lubbock metropolitan area in the Texas Panhandle, bringing...
Delivery charges make up around 40% of your bill. You can't control these fees—only your energy rate is something you can shop for. Delivery charges change every March (usually down) and September (usually up).
TDU delivery charges (also called TDSP charges) pay for the poles, wires, and meters that deliver electricity to your home. These rates are regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and passed through to you without markup—every provider charges the same delivery rate for your area.
Why your "fixed rate" bill still changes: Whether you have a bundled rate (single price) or unbundled rate (separate energy + delivery), your total bill changes when delivery rates change. Fine print typically states: "The price you pay each month will reflect the transmission and distribution utility charges in effect for your monthly billing cycle."
Your utility handles power line maintenance, meter reading, and outage response regardless of which provider you choose. The only thing that changes when you switch is your electricity rate and billing company.
TDU info verified:
Start with the TDU that serves your address — Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP Texas, TNMP, or LP&L — because that fixes your delivery charge. Then pull every Retail Electric Provider (REP) plan published for that TDU territory at your monthly kWh, not the advertised 1,000 kWh benchmark. The Electricity Facts Label (EFL) every PUCT-licensed REP must publish shows the price at 500, 1,000, and 2,000 kWh; read it at the level that matches twelve months of your bills. Add the TDU delivery rate listed above (it's identical across every REP), check the early termination fee, and confirm the contract length. Cheapest plan equals lowest twelve-month total — not lowest headline rate.
In Texas, the utility is the Transmission and Distribution Utility (TDU) — it owns the poles, wires, and meter that physically deliver power to your home. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) sets the TDU's delivery rate, and that charge is identical for every customer in the same service area regardless of who they buy electricity from. The competitive supplier is the Retail Electric Provider (REP) — the company that sells you the electricity, sends the bill, and owns the customer relationship. You can switch REPs anytime in the deregulated ERCOT market. You can't switch TDUs; that's set by address. Delivery is about forty percent of your bill, supply is the rest.
The competitive REP rates on this site refresh daily from the Power to Choose feed and direct REP APIs — what you see was published by the PUCT-licensed provider within the last twenty-four hours. TDU delivery charges shown here are PUCT-approved tariff rates, updated when the PUCT publishes the next semi-annual rate change (March and September, per the standard adjustment cycle). Rates can change between your search and the moment you enroll because REPs can re-file new EFLs. Always confirm the EFL on the provider's checkout page before you sign — that's the legally binding document.
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