CenterPoint Houston Delivery Charges and Where It Serves

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric reported 2,529,039 residential customers in 2025. It delivers electricity over its lines and does not sell it, so there is no single bundled price. EIA records the delivery revenue it collects: 5.41 cents per kWh, or $60.74 a month at 1,124 kWh. The retail provider you choose adds the energy charge and its own fees.

EIA lists the counties where CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 12 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, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric reported an average of 151 minutes without power per customer and 1.77 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 86 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric had about 24 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 86 minutes and 1.77 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 151 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. CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA does not show residential net-metered solar for CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in 2025. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Texas, that review is done by the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Texas.

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

Of the 82 utilities listed for Texas, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 19.8% of the state total. CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric lists distribution equipment in 12 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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