Electric Companies in Texas: Every Utility and Its Rates

Showing the 60 largest of 87. The rest are small municipal systems and cooperatives.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Homes in TX counts only the customers in this state. Price and bill cover the utility's whole territory and bundled customers only. Delivery only means the utility carries power but does not sell it.

Each type is run differently. An investor-owned company answers to shareholders and a state commission. A municipal utility answers to a city. A cooperative answers to its members. That is why the same state can have very different prices and service from one address to the next.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Customer-weighted average of the prices utilities report for bundled residential service. It leaves out delivery-only customers and retail providers.

Outside the investor-owned companies, the largest municipal utility is CPS Energy (888,946 homes), and the largest electric cooperative is Pedernales Electric Cooperative (420,753 homes).

Price differences between types come from costs, customer density and the way each type is financed, so a lower average does not decide which is better for your home.

These Texas utilities are among the 600 largest in the country, and each has a profile with its service area, reliability and rate options.

• ProfileOncor Electric Delivery3.55 million homes. Investor-owned.Open
• ProfileCenterPoint Energy Houston Electric2.53 million homes. Investor-owned.Open
• ProfileCPS Energy889 thousand homes. Municipal.Open
• ProfileAEP Texas Central794 thousand homes. Investor-owned.Open
• ProfileAustin Energy522 thousand homes. Municipal.Open
• ProfileEntergy Texas469 thousand homes. Investor-owned.Open
• ProfilePedernales Electric Cooperative421 thousand homes. Cooperative.Open
• ProfileEl Paso Electric418 thousand homes. Investor-owned.Open
• ProfileCoServ311 thousand homes. Cooperative.Open

The statewide average residential price is 15.40 cents per kWh and the average bill is $170.95 a month. See the full breakdown, rankings and neighbors on the Texas electricity rates page. Among utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, average prices ran from 9.42 cents at Kerrville Public Utility Board to 17.04 cents at Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative.

In the competitive areas, you pick a retail electric provider for the energy and the transmission and distribution utility delivers it. Municipal utilities and most electric cooperatives are not in the competitive market, and El Paso and parts of the Panhandle and East Texas sit outside the ERCOT grid. Read the Texas electricity providers guide. Regulation and complaints go through the Public Utility Commission of Texas.