We price plans in six Texas delivery areas.
Most Texans live in the retail-choice market: a utility you don't choose runs the wires, and you pick who sells you the electricity. If your home is in one of these six areas, we can rank your plans.
The six delivery areas
Your delivery utility is on your bill, usually next to the "TDU" or "delivery" charges. We list some of the larger cities in each area, not all of them. Boundaries follow ZIPs, and sometimes streets.
Oncor
The largest area in the state: Dallas–Fort Worth and most of north, central and west Texas.
CenterPoint Energy
Houston and the surrounding counties along the upper Gulf Coast.
AEP Texas
Two areas, Central and North: the Coastal Bend, the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and Abilene–San Angelo.
Texas-New Mexico Power
Smaller areas south of Houston, in north Texas, and in far west Texas.
Lubbock Power & Light
The newest area: Lubbock's city utility joined retail choice in 2024.
Not in the market
If your power comes from a co-op, a city utility other than Lubbock's, or a regulated utility, we have nothing to rank. Most of them don't let you choose a provider, and we don't price the co-ops that do. A few of the larger ones:
- Austin — Austin Energy
- San Antonio — CPS Energy
- El Paso — El Paso Electric
- Beaumont and Southeast Texas — Entergy Texas
- Amarillo and the Panhandle — Xcel Energy
- Longview, Texarkana and Northeast Texas — SWEPCO
- Electric co-ops — Pedernales, Bluebonnet, CoServ, and dozens more
- Other city utilities — Georgetown, Denton, Garland, Bryan, and others