State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Texas Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Texas costs 16.44¢ per kWh (+5.9% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Texas's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 15.47¢/kWh, 10.6% below the US average. Power costs less here than the US average, with renewables at 33% of generation and the balance, detailed below, coming from conventional fuels.
- 16.44¢
- May 2026 rate
- +5.9%
- year over year
- 15.47¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -10.6%
- vs US average
- 33%
- Renewable
- 12.9M
- Customers
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15.47¢/kWh residential, 8.64¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Texas's residential average revenue per kWh is 15.47¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 8.64¢/kWh and an industrial average of 6.55¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 33% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 10.6% below the US average vs national residential average
- 33% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Texas's residential electricity runs 15.47¢/kWh - 10.6% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 46% of other states, with 33% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 12.9M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Texas's industrial average rose from 6.12¢/kWh to 6.55¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +7.0%.
- Texas's residential average rose from 14.94¢/kWh to 15.47¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +3.5%.
- Texas's commercial average rose from 8.55¢/kWh to 8.64¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +1.1%.
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Texas generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 32.8% of generation.
- Natural Gas48.5%
- Windrenewable21.8%
- Coal11.6%
- Solarrenewable10.8%
- Nuclear7.0%
- Hydrorenewable0.2%
Who generates Texas's electricity
Texas has 2,388 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 187,122 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is W A Parish , a conventional steam coal station operated by NRG Texas Power LLC , rated 3,632 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc, Southwest Power Pool and Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
Showing the 16 largest of 1,051 operable plants in Texas by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W A Parish | NRG Texas Power LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 3,632 |
| South Texas Project | STP Nuclear Operating Co | Nuclear | – | 2,580 |
| Martin Lake | Luminant Generation Company LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 2,455 |
| Comanche Peak | Luminant Generation Company LLC | Nuclear | – | 2,400 |
| Forney Energy Center | LaFrontera Holdings LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,770 |
| Oak Grove (TX) | Luminant Generation Company LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,710 |
| Limestone | NRG Texas Power LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,688 |
| Midlothian Energy Facility | Midlothian Energy LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,620 |
| Fayette Power Project | Lower Colorado River Authority | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,615 |
| Temple Power Station | Temple Generation Holdings LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,580 |
| Sabine | Entergy Texas Inc. | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,501 |
| Cedar Bayou | NRG Texas Power LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,495 |
| J K Spruce | City of San Antonio - (TX) | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,345 |
| Handley | Constellation Power, Inc | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,245 |
| Jack County | Jack County Power, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,241 |
| Deer Park Energy Center | Deer Park Energy Center | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,192 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Luminant Generation Company LLC | 12 | 10,446 |
| NRG Texas Power LLC | 6 | 8,304 |
| City of San Antonio - (TX) | 16 | 7,135 |
| RWE Clean Energy | 37 | 6,497 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 7 | 4,180 |
| Lower Colorado River Authority | 12 | 4,077 |
| LaFrontera Holdings LLC | 3 | 3,876 |
| Constellation Power, Inc | 3 | 3,491 |
| Engie North America | 32 | 3,373 |
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 7 | 3,224 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
What Texas's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Texas pay 15.47¢/kWh in 2025, across 12.9M metered households, placing the state 10.6% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 8.64¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 6.55¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 170.9M MWh on roughly $26.4B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Industry pays comparatively more here than households do: Texas ranks 48 of 51 on industrial power against 24 on residential, one of only a handful of states where the industrial ranking sits that far above the residential one. No single fuel reaches half of Texas's in-state generation. Natural gas leads at 48.5%, with wind at 21.8% close enough behind that the mix reads as a balance rather than a clear lead. It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 32.8% of Texas's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Texas moved from 10.99¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.47¢/kWh in 2025, a 40.8% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include West Virginia, Oregon, Arizona, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Texas's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Texas can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-10.6%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
46%
of states have higher rates — Mid-range cost
33%
Moderate renewable — above the 25% US mix
12.9M
residential customers served
Residential Price History
Texas residential average revenue per kWh moved from 10.99¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.47¢/kWh in 2025 (40.8% over the window).
- Texas residential avg
- 15.47¢/kWh 40.8% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Texas residential: 2016, 11¢
- Texas residential: 2017, 11¢
- Texas residential: 2018, 11.2¢
- Texas residential: 2019, 11.8¢
- Texas residential: 2020, 11.7¢
- Texas residential: 2021, 12.1¢
- Texas residential: 2022, 13.8¢
- Texas residential: 2023, 14.5¢
- Texas residential: 2024, 14.9¢
- Texas residential: 2025, 15.5¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Texas full trend →
Texas Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Texas households paid 15.47¢/kWh while businesses paid 8.64¢/kWh, a 79.1% residential premium, one of the widest household-versus-business gaps in the country. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.47¢/kWh | 8.64¢/kWh | 6.55¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 14.94¢/kWh | 8.55¢/kWh | 6.12¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 14.46¢/kWh | 8.82¢/kWh | 6.60¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 13.76¢/kWh | 9.05¢/kWh | 7.13¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 12.11¢/kWh | 8.72¢/kWh | 6.12¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 11.71¢/kWh | 7.60¢/kWh | 5.07¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.76¢/kWh | 8.06¢/kWh | 5.45¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.20¢/kWh | 8.16¢/kWh | 5.39¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.01¢/kWh | 8.26¢/kWh | 5.35¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 10.99¢/kWh | 8.26¢/kWh | 5.33¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Texas's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
15.47¢/kWh 46th affordability percentile More affordable than 46% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Texas compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Texas against the US average or a peer state.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$26.4B
Commercial Revenue
$15.0B
Residential Sales
170.9M MWh
Residential Customers
12.9M
Using Texas's numbers
Texas is mid-transition, which is the phase where prices are hardest to predict: it is paying to run the old fleet and to build the new one at the same time, and the rate above sits in the middle of that.
- Texas sits 10.6% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Texas price trend
- Compare Texas side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Where Texas's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Texas
The 145 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Texas to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliant Energy Retail Services | Retail Power Marketer | 1.5M | 17.38¢ |
| TXU Energy Retail Co, LLC | Retail Power Marketer | 1.4M | 18.70¢ |
| City of San Antonio - (TX) | Municipal | 865.9K | 12.43¢ |
| Austin Energy | Municipal | 507.3K | 12.58¢ |
| Entergy Texas Inc. | Investor Owned | 457.4K | 13.66¢ |
| US Retailers, LLC | Retail Power Marketer | 412.3K | 14.60¢ |
| Just Energy | Retail Power Marketer | 407.7K | 15.15¢ |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 405.6K | 12.22¢ |
| Ambit Energy Holdings, LLC | Retail Power Marketer | 360.5K | 18.77¢ |
| El Paso Electric Co | Investor Owned | 312.6K | 13.46¢ |
| Denton County Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 298.7K | 13.77¢ |
| Green Mountain Energy Company | Retail Power Marketer | 292.2K | 17.52¢ |
| Direct Energy Services | Retail Power Marketer | 266.2K | 16.37¢ |
| Gexa Energy, LP | Retail Power Marketer | 259.8K | 18.11¢ |
| Champion Energy Services | Retail Power Marketer | 225.6K | 9.98¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 145 reporting utilities. The 27 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.