Austin Energy Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Austin Energy reported 522,446 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 835 kWh a month on average at 13.14 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 64 Texas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Austin Energy ranks 31 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Austin Energy has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Austin Energy reported an average of 77 minutes without power per customer and 0.96 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 80 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Austin Energy had about 51 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 80 minutes and 0.96 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 77 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Austin Energy reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 59 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA does not show residential net-metered solar for Austin Energy in 2025. How net metering works.

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For questions about state consumer protections, see the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Austin Energy is a municipal utility based in Texas.

Austin Energy operates in the ERCOT power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Austin Energy is 5th by size and serves about 4.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.14 cents per kWh is 0.74 cents above the median of 15 other municipal utilities in Texas (12.40 cents). At $109.73 a month, an average Austin Energy home pays about $735 a year less than the Texas average of $170.95, and uses 275 kWh a month less. Austin Energy lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Texas with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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