Energysavings.com is providing you with the most recent market updates regarding electricity plans in Texas. We are collecting daily snapshots from the Power to Choose website and analyzing them monthly to give you a full tour of the market trends and offers available in the deregulated area. Electricity plan types can be tricky! That is why we are grouping the most common plans and analyzing them every month to give you an apples-to-apples comparison.
TRENDS: NOVEMBER vs OCTOBER
AEP North Delivery Area– November 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common Plans (non-green):1
| Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| October | November | Trends | October | November | Trends | |
| Lowest | 9.2 | 9.2 |  0% |
11.3 | 11.2 |  -1% |
| Highest | 15.8 | 15.8 | 0% |
18.5 | 18.5 | 0% |
| Average | 11.9 | 12.1 |  2% |
13.0 | 13.1 | 1% |
| Number of REPs | 28 | 25 |  -11% |
10 | 10 | 0% |
1Trends show the percentage change in the rate from the previous month for the same category of products. This table compares the lowest price offered by each REP that offered the respective type of plan in each month. The “Highest” row above shows the highest price among all the lowest price plans offered by REPs offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
First, in the AEP North delivery area, DIRECT ENERGY, SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC and RANCHERO POWER are no longer showing plans in the first product category, which explains the -11% change in the number of REPs in the table above. Those electric providers are still on the Power to Choose website but executing a different strategy as they are showing different kinds of plans, including some that vary by contract length and rate type.
Second, looking at the trends, the market was pretty stable in this delivery area as well. We only captured a 2% increase in the average rate in the first category, explained by a few providers slightly increasing their rates in November. In the variable rate category, the lowest rate decreased by 1%, explained by INFUSE ENERGY LLC slightly decreasing their rates (from 12.2 to 11.2 cents/kWh for a 1000kWh monthly usage.) But globally, the average rate increased by 1% in this category as some REPs increased their prices slightly in November.
AEP North Delivery Area – November 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common 100% Green Plans:1
| 100 % green, Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
100 % green, Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| October | November | Trends | October | November | Trends | |
| Lowest | 10.9 | 10.8 | -1% |
12.3 | 11.3 | -8% |
| Highest | 13.3 | 13.3 | 0% |
18.7 | 18.7 | 0% |
| Average | 11.9 | 12.0 | 1% |
15.5 | 15.1 | -2% |
| Number of REPs | 7 | 8 |  14% |
4 | 3 | -25% |
1Trends show the percentage change in the rate from the previous month for the same category of products. This table compares the lowest price offered by each REP that offered the respective type of plan in each month. The “Highest” row above shows the highest price among all the lowest price plans offered by REPs offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
First, let’s compare the number of electricity providers showing offers. Similar to our observations in all the other delivery areas this month, BRANCH ENERGY is showing offers for the first time on the Power to Choose website in the 100% green, fixed-rate 12-month category – welcome BRANCH ENERGY! Their plan is a 100% green fixed-rate, 12-month contract requiring e-billing, auto-payment and a $120 early termination fee. Interestingly, ENERGY TEXAS is not showing offers in this delivery area in these two 100 % green categories; nor is it in the AEP Central delivery area. CHARIOT ENERGY also left the game here as they are not showing plans anymore in November in the second category. This explains the +14% and -25% in the number of REPs offering plans in the two categories in the table above.
Then, looking at the trend between October and November, we did not capture big variations in this delivery area. The lowest rates decreased by 1% and by 8%, respectively, for each category. The average rate increased by 1% for the 100% green fixed rate category while it decreased by 2% for the 100% green variable rate one.
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LIST OF ELECTRIC PROVIDERS/ PRICES
AEP North Delivery Area – November 2021: List of Lowest Reported EFL Prices for an estimated 1000 kWh’s*
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Abilene, Texas (or AEP North TDU area): Non-100% Green 12-month Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| THINK ENERGY | 9.2 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 10.3 |
| VETERAN ENERGY | 10.5 |
| FRONTIER UTILITIES | 10.7 |
| TRUE POWER | 11.2 |
| WINDROSE ENERGY | 11.4 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.6 |
| POWERNEXT | 11.6 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 11.8 |
| YEP | 11.8 |
| SUMMER ENERGY LLC | 12.0 |
| CIRRO ENERGY | 12.3 |
| DISCOUNT POWER | 12.4 |
| AMIGO ENERGY | 12.5 |
| JUST ENERGY | 12.5 |
| TARA ENERGY | 12.5 |
| CHAMPION ENERGY SERVICES LLC | 12.6 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 12.7 |
| SPARK ENERGY LLC | 12.7 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 12.8 |
| RELIANT | 12.9 |
| TXU ENERGY | 13.2 |
| CONSTELLATION NEWENERGY INC | 13.3 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 13.4 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 15.8 |
In this month, 64% of these REPs changed their price (16 out of 25). Most of them (11) decreased it and 5 increased it. THINK ENERGY offered the lowest price while AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest.
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Abilene, Texas (or AEP North TDU area): Non-100% Green Variable Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.2 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 11.4 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 11.5 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 12.2 |
| YEP | 12.2 |
| TEXPO ENERGY | 12.4 |
| RELIANT | 12.9 |
| NEC CO-OP ENERGY | 13.0 |
| TXU ENERGY | 15.2 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.5 |
INFUSE ENERGY LLC and AMBIT ENERGY offered the lowest and highest price, respectively. Among these 10 REPs, 5 changed their price within the month of November and 2 of them increased it while the 3 left did the opposite at the beginning of the month.
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Abilene, Texas (or AEP North TDU area): 100% Green 12-month Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| GEXA ENERGY | 10.80 |
| BRANCH ENERGY | 10.82 |
| MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC | 11.40 |
| CLEANSKY ENERGY | 11.60 |
| RHYTHM | 12.20 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 12.90 |
| CHARIOT ENERGY | 13.30 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 13.30 |
In November, we noticed that GEXA ENERGY held the lowest price spot and CHARIOT ENERGY and TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP tied for the highest price spot in this category. We can’t draw a common trend as 50% changed their prices during the month, half of them decreasing their rate and the other half increasing it.
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Abilene, Texas (or AEP North TDU area): 100% Green Variable Rate Plan:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.3 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 15.4 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.7 |
Only INFUSE ENERGY LLC decreased their price in November in this category.
* Data obtained from powertochoose.org (Power to Choose) for the days from 11/1/2021 to 11/30/2021. The tables above list the lowest price in cents/kWh offered by each retail electricity provider (REP) for a given type of plan for a monthly usage of 1000 kWh. If more than one product was available from the same REP for a given type of plan, EnergySavings.com only included the one with the lowest rate in its analysis. Please note that as products and rates may change at any time in the day on Power to Choose; EnergySavings.com’s analysis is based on information captured in its single daily snapshot, and therefore cannot guarantee that every product and rate made available in the month has been captured. Please reach out to [email protected] if you feel that any meaningful data has not been captured and EnergySavings.com may, at its sole discretion, issue a correction to the report. The analysis is performed by excluding plans that are marked as “Minimum usage fees/credits”, “Time of Use”, and “Prepaid” according to the data captured from Power to Choose. For more information about the electricity plans mentioned in this report, please consult both the Electricity Fact Label (EFL) and Terms of Service (TOS) for those plans. Those documents are available on the Power to Choose site if the plan is still currently offered. The rates listed may differ if the REP has changed its pricing.