Texas commercial electricity prices: averages and delivery charges (2026)

Average prices, Texas and the US.

EIA’s average is total revenue divided by kWh sold, so it includes supply, delivery and the taxes and fees billed with them, across every customer in the sector. Cents per kWh.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A, read October 31, 2026.

What the average cannot tell you.

It mixes supply contracts signed in different years at different prices. It mixes the Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP and TNMP delivery areas, which bill differently. And it mixes a corner shop billed per kWh with a plant billed on demand. So a business cannot read its own price off the table.

What you can do is split your bill in two. The supply line is the part a contract changes: compare it with current offers on the same usage and start date, as in our quote comparison checklist. The delivery lines are set by your utility’s tariff and apply whichever provider you choose; the current amounts are below.

Oncor delivery charges for business sites.

Oncor bills business sites in two classes. At or below 10 kW of peak demand the charges are per kWh; above 10 kW most of them are per kW of demand, and the distribution price per kW depends on the site’s annual load factor. How the classes, the 80% ratchet and the bands work is in our Oncor guide; the amounts are here.

Billing kW is this month’s 15-minute peak, or 80% of the highest peak in the past 11 months if that is higher and the ratchet applies. Our ratchet calculator works it out from two numbers on your bills.

CenterPoint delivery charges for business sites.

CenterPoint measures demand in kVA rather than kW, bills the distribution charge on the current month’s peak with no ratchet, and charges IDR-metered sites (those that have reached 700 kVA) higher fixed charges with transmission billed on 4CP. Details in our CenterPoint guide; the amounts are here. The municipal franchise credit on the tariff applies only to accounts held by a city, so it is left out.

One month, worked through.

Take a site with a 50 kW peak that is also its billing demand (no ratchet in play), 15,000 kWh in the month, on Oncor’s lowest distribution band, and the same 50 figure in kVA at CenterPoint, non-IDR. The delivery part of the bill would be:

Three cautions. A real site’s kVA is never lower than its kW, so the same equipment reads a little higher at CenterPoint than the equal figures above suggest. An Oncor site over 20 kW with a load factor of 25% or less pays up to $9.831092 per kW on distribution instead of $6.931363. And the supply charge, taxes and fees come on top of all of this.

What changed in 2026.

Oncor: new base rates from its rate case (PUCT Docket 58306) took effect June 1; Rider IS, an interim surcharge recovering the difference between those rates and the January 1 rates, runs from August 1 through December 2026; the TCRF and DCRF riders were revised on October 4. CenterPoint: the TCRF and Schedule SRC II changed on September 1, Rider TEEEF on August 15 and Rider DCRF on September 30. Residential figures are left off this page.

How to use these figures.

• Find the TDU or delivery section of your bill and match each line to the table for your utility and class. A line that is not here is worth a question to your provider.
• Check which class you are on: above 10 kW or kVA, your peak sets most of the delivery charge, so the demand guide is where the savings are.
• Keep delivery out of any quote comparison. Compare supply against supply, on the same usage and start date.
• Come back monthly: EIA updates the averages and the utilities revise riders on their own dates. The date at the top of each table is the one to trust.

If you want the comparison done for you, start with your business ZIP and email on our energy page and add a bill when it is to hand. Firm prices need every page of a recent bill.