The 1,000 kWh price may not be what you pay.
For a typical Texas home, the least expensive 1-to-2-year plan at 1,000 kWh would have cost $342 to $667 a year more than the lowest-cost plan of the same length.
The 1,000 kWh price is what a plan costs in a month of exactly 1,000 kWh. Your year has lighter and heavier months, and they decide your cost. watt marshal ranks plans on your own 12 months of usage. You pay once, and providers never pay us.
What we did
Every plan's Electricity Facts Label, and the state's Power to Choose site, show an average price at only three usage levels: 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh a month. We're not affiliated with Power to Choose. On October 23, 2026, in each of the six delivery areas we cover, we ranked every fixed-rate plan of 1 to 2 years that we could price at 1,000 kWh a month. The same 12-month plan came first in all six. Then we priced it on a typical Texas home's year: 1,096 kWh a month on average, with more in summer.
The result
Where that plan ranked on a typical home's months:
Why
The plan takes a $125 credit off the bill in any month you use 1,000 kWh or more, and charges a high energy rate in every month. At 1,000 kWh every month the credit always comes off, so the price looks low. This home uses less than 1,000 kWh in 7 of its 12 months, mostly in spring, fall and winter. In those months there is no credit, only the high rate. Our guide to bill credits explains the line.
How we priced it
Each cost comes from the plan's own Electricity Facts Label and the delivery utility's tariff, by the same calculation a watt marshal report uses. The 1,096 kWh average is the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2024 figure for Texas homes. These are estimates as of October 23, 2026, not quotes, and plans change. We don't name the plan, because its offer may have changed since.
More guides
Why is my electric bill so high?
Five things that make a Texas bill jump, from summer usage to an expired contract, and how to check each one on your own bill.
What's in a watt marshal report
A walk through the report, section by section: the free preview, every contract length, each plan and the label behind it, and what we leave out.
Bill credits
How a usage bill credit works, why a month just under the line costs the whole credit, and how your report counts it.
Minimum usage fees and usage tiers
A fee for using too little, a rate that changes past a line, and how each one lands on a real year of bills.
Reading an Electricity Facts Label
Where to find a plan's label, what each section says, and the lines that decide what you pay.
Rank plans on your own 12 months. Start with your ZIP.
Your report ranks every fixed-rate plan we can price in your delivery area on your usage, within each contract length.