Texas Electricity Rates and Average Electric Bill Guide

Usage, not price, drives the Texas bill. Households use 27% more electricity than the typical US household, while the price runs 11% below the national price. Climate and heating fuel usually explain a gap like this, because air conditioning, space heating and water heating are the largest named uses of electricity in a home (EIA RECS 2020).

Over a year, the average Texas household pays about $2,051 for electricity. The state ranks 6th highest for the monthly bill, 25th highest for price per kWh and 5th highest for use, out of 51 places (50 states and DC).

Source: EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data, residential sector. Bills are revenue divided by customers, divided by 12.

Want to see where your own bill falls? Use the bill checker or read the average bill guide for apartments, houses and different household sizes.

Retail electricity providers serve the largest share of Texas households at 56%. electric cooperatives (20%) and municipal utilities (15%) cover most of the rest. EIA lists 87 utilities and electricity suppliers with customers in Texas.

See every utility that reports customers here on the electric companies in Texas page.

If you do not know who serves your address, the find my electric company tool matches your county to a utility.

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. EIA data shows retail suppliers served about 55% of Texas residential customers in 2025.

The official comparison site is Power to Choose. Start there, because it is run for consumers and lists real offers.

Read our Texas electricity providers guide for how switching works, who delivers your power and what to check before you sign.

Utilities in Texas reported an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes without power per customer in 2025, with 1.55 interruptions per customer, when major storm days are left out. That outage time is longer than the median state (127 minutes).

Customers in Texas had 140,052 net-metered residential solar systems with a combined 1,165.8 megawatts of capacity in 2025. That works out to 10.9 systems for every 1,000 households, which ranks 35 of 51 places. Net metering lets a home with solar offset what it uses from the grid, so it changes the bill math for those households. Our net metering guide explains how the credit works.

Outage figures are reported by utilities and follow different standards, so compare states with care. The median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer in 2025.

• Start with cooling and water heating. Texas households use 27% more electricity than the typical US home, so the biggest savings usually sit in air conditioning, space heating and water heating. Our guide to lowering your bill covers the fixes.
• Compare supplier offers. Because Texas allows retail choice, the supply price on your bill can be higher or lower than the default. Compare at least three fixed-rate offers and check the contract length and the cancellation fee.
• Ask about time-of-use pricing. 4 of the 8 largest providers report residential time-of-use programs in EIA data. If you can shift laundry, charging and cooling to cheaper hours, the savings can be real. Our time-of-use guide explains how to test it.
• Ask about budget billing. Many utilities spread costs across the year. Read how budget billing works before you sign up.
• Price your appliances. The electricity cost calculator shows what a space heater, dryer or pool pump costs to run at your rate.

Electric rates and consumer complaints in Texas are handled by the Public Utility Commission of Texas. If you have a billing dispute you could not settle with your utility, the regulator is the next step.