Kilowatt Atlas

Municipal utility

City of College Station Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with City of College Station, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

43 thousand

42,531 homes

Average price

14.58 cents

Texas average 15.40

Average bill

$137.01

Per month at 940 kWh

Price rank

50 of 64

Lowest to highest in Texas

City of College Station rates and average bill

City of College Station reported 42,531 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 940 kWh a month on average at 14.58 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, City of College Station ranks 50 from the lowest price.

City of College Station compared with Texas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
City of College Station14.58940$137.01
Texas (all utilities)15.401,110$170.95
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where City of College Station has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Texas (1 county)

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Reliability

For 2025, City of College Station reported an average of 13 minutes without power per customer and 0.22 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 61 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of College Station had about 114 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 61 minutes and 0.22 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 13 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. City of College Station 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 City of College Station in 2025. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

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

City of College Station is a municipal utility based in Texas.

City of College Station operates in the ERCOT power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

City of College Station compared with Texas

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of College Station is 31st by size and serves about 0.33% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.58 cents per kWh is 2.18 cents above the median of 15 other municipal utilities in Texas (12.40 cents). At $137.01 a month, an average City of College Station home pays about $407 a year less than the Texas average of $170.95, and uses 171 kWh a month less. City of College Station lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address.

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.

Other Texas utilities

Utilities in Texas close in size to City of College Station
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
City of College StationMunicipal42,53114.58
Brownsville Public Utilities BoardMunicipal48,50011.22
Upshur Rural Electric CooperativeCooperative44,97112.71
Deep East Texas Electric CooperativeCooperative40,59314.05
Central Texas Electric CooperativeCooperative40,30512.17
Mid-South Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative37,25115.37

See every one on the electric companies in Texas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not City of College Station and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

City of College Station questions

What is the average residential electric rate for City of College Station?

City of College Station residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 14.58 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 940 kWh a month and an average bill of $137.01 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Texas average was 15.40 cents.

How many customers does City of College Station have?

EIA reports about 42,531 residential customers for City of College Station in 2025.

Who regulates City of College Station?

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it. See the regulator for Texas on the Texas state page.

How reliable is City of College Station?

For 2025, City of College Station reported an average of 13 minutes of outage per customer and 0.22 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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