Texas Residential Electricity Prices

Measures: the average price Texas residential customers paid per kilowatt-hour, as reported by the EIA. Geography: statewide Texas, residential sector only. Coverage: 25 monthly readings between August 2024 and August 2026. The EIA publishes this series monthly and revises recent months as utilities report.

How much does electricity cost in Texas per kWh?

Texas residential customers paid an average of 15.91¢ per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, the most recent month the EIA has published. On a 1,000 kWh bill — the basis Texas retail plans are usually advertised on — that works out to roughly $159 a month before fixed charges and taxes.

What is the average electric bill in Texas?

At the 15.61¢ per kWh average between August 2024 and August 2026, a 1,000 kWh month comes to about $156. Actual bills vary widely with house size, insulation and summer air-conditioning load; 1,000 kWh is a convention for comparing plans, not a typical Texas summer.

Are Texas electricity prices going up or down?

Between August 2024 and August 2026 the statewide residential average went from 14.88¢ to 15.91¢, a rise of 6.9%. The month-by-month table above shows the path. The EIA revises recent months as utilities report, so the newest one or two figures can move.

When is electricity most expensive in Texas?

In this window the highest monthly average was 17.00¢ in April 2026 and the lowest was 14.63¢ in January 2025. Note that this series is the average price per unit, not what households spend: summer bills are usually highest because air conditioning drives up usage, even in months when the per-kWh price is not at its peak.

Does this include my delivery charges?

Yes, in aggregate. The EIA series is total residential revenue divided by total residential sales, so it reflects what customers actually paid — energy plus delivery — averaged across the state. It is not the advertised energy rate on any one retail plan, and it will not match your bill exactly.

Methodology

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration API v2, electricity retail-sales route, filtered to Texas (stateid TX) and the residential sector (sectorid RES) at monthly frequency. Each month is stored as one observation keyed by its period, so the EIA's revisions to recent months update in place rather than duplicating. Bill figures are computed at build time at a 1,000 kWh reference month, the basis Texas retail plans are advertised on, and are illustrative rather than a quote. Observations are append-only: if a scheduled update fails, the last known-good values are preserved and marked stale with the date they were last confirmed, rather than being shown as zero or blank.

Source: EIA Electricity Data (Texas, residential). Last confirmed November 12, 2026. See our full methodology for how we handle stale data, historical observations, and source attribution across the site.