Our team at EnergySavings.com has been capturing daily snapshots of electricity plans from the Power to Choose website. Data collected* are analyzed monthly to give you an understanding of the offers available and the market trends. Grouping the most common plans by category, we analyze the same plan categories every month to give you an apples-to-apples comparison.
TRENDS: JUNE vs MAY
CenterPoint Delivery Area – June 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common Plans:1
| Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| May | June | Trends | May | June | Trends | |
| Lowest | 9.1 | 9.1 |  0% |
8.2 | 8.4 |  2% |
| Highest | 12.8 | 13.9 | 9% |
17.0 | 17.0 | 0% |
| Average | 10.0 | 10.1 | 1% |
11.0 | 11.4 | 3% |
| Number of REPs | 30 | 31 |  3% |
11 | 12 | 9% |
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 Retail Electric Provider 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 Retail Electric Providers offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
- Fixed rate category: we captured an increase for the highest rate (9%); the average rate also increased slightly by 1%. VARSITY ENERGY LLC has started to show offers on the Power to Choose website in June 2021 in this delivery area.
- Variable rate category: we observed an increase in the lowest rate by 2%; the average rate also increased by 3%. RANCHERO POWER started to offer variable plans in June as we noticed that this provider started to show offers on Power to Choose website in June 2021.
CenterPoint Delivery Area – June 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) | |||||
| May | June | Trends | May | June | Trends | |
| Lowest | 9.1 | 9.4 | 3% |
12.1 | 11.9 |  -2% |
| Highest | 14.8 | 14.9 | 1% |
17.2 | 17.2 | 0% |
| Average | 10.8 | 10.9 | 2% |
14.5 | 14.5 | 0% |
| Number of REPs | 13 | 12 |  -8% |
3 | 3 | 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 Retail Electric Provider 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 Retail Electric Providers offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
Between May and June, the number of Retail Electric Providers showing offers in the fixed price category on the Power to Choose website decreased for the fixed rate plan’s category (IBERDROLA TEXAS stopped showing offers in June 2021). The number of Retail Electric Providers in the variable rate category didn’t change. We observed only slight variations regarding prices between those two periods for these two categories of plans that are shown in the table above.
GREEN OR NOT GREEN?
CenterPoint Delivery Area – June 2021: How fixed rates and variable rate plans compare 2?
| Fixed Rate Plans, 12-mo (cents/kWh) | Variable Rate Plans (cents/kWh) | |||||
| 100% green | Not green | Trend | 100% green | Not green | Trend | |
| Lowest | 9.4 | 9.1 | 3% | 11.9 | 8.4 | 42% |
| Highest | 14.9 | 13.9 | 7% | 17.2 | 17.0 | 1% |
| Average rate | 10.9 | 10.1 | 8% | 14.5 | 11.4 | 28% |
| Number of REPs | 12 | 31 | -61% | 3 | 12 | -75% |
2This table compares the lowest price offered by each Retail Electric Provider that offered the respective type of plan. The “Highest” row above shows the highest price among all the lowest price plans offered by Retail Electric Providers offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
Taking into consideration the lowest rates, our table shows that 100% green plans in CenterPoint are on average 8% more expensive for the fixed rate category and 28% more expensive for the variable rate category.
Let’s compare those percentages using a 1000 kWh monthly usage and the lowest rates: the 100% green fixed rate plan will cost you $3 more each month while the 100% green variable rate plan will cost you $35 more each month. Which type of rate would you choose if you decide to go Green? If you prefer to subscribe to a non-green plan but do want to do good for the planet, you could look into buying carbon offsets separately. You can simply subscribe to a monthly plan that fits your lifestyle with companies such as Terrapass3.
3Terrapass is an affiliate of IEG.
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LIST OF ENERGY PROVIDERS/ PRICES
CenterPoint Delivery Area – June 2021: List of Lowest Reported EFL Prices for an estimated 1000 kWh.
Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): Non-100% Green 12mo-Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| FRONTIER UTILITIES | 9.1 |
| POWERNEXT | 9.1 |
| SPARK ENERGY LLC | 9.2 |
| DISCOUNT POWER | 9.4 |
| FIRST CHOICE POWER | 9.4 |
| THINK ENERGY | 9.4 |
| VARSITY ENERGY LLC | 9.4 |
| CIRRO ENERGY | 9.5 |
| EXPRESS ENERGY | 9.5 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 9.6 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 9.6 |
| V247 POWER CORPORATION | 9.6 |
| YEP | 9.6 |
| VETERAN ENERGY | 9.7 |
| WINDROSE ENERGY | 9.8 |
| AMIGO ENERGY | 9.9 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 9.9 |
| JUST ENERGY | 9.9 |
| TARA ENERGY | 9.9 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 10.0 |
| DIRECT ENERGY | 10.2 |
| SUMMER ENERGY LLC | 10.2 |
| CHAMPION ENERGY SERVICES LLC | 10.5 |
| RELIANT | 10.6 |
| AP GAS & ELECTRIC (TX) LLC | 10.9 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 10.9 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 10.9 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 11.2 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 11.4 |
| TXU ENERGY | 11.7 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 13.9 |
FRONTIER UTILITIES and POWERNEXT held the lowest price spot and AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest rate in this plan category in June 2021. Of the electricity providers in this list, 77% changed their prices. Among the ones that changed their prices during the month, the majority of them increased their rates.
Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): Non-100% Green Variable Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 8.4 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 8.9 |
| RELIANT | 9.9 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 10.2 |
| YEP | 10.2 |
| TEXPO ENERGY | 10.4 |
| DIRECT ENERGY | 11.9 |
| FIRST CHOICE POWER | 11.9 |
| NEC CO-OP ENERGY | 12.1 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 12.2 |
| TXU ENERGY | 13.3 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 17.0 |
SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC offered the lowest price this month while AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest price. Of the 12 Retail Electric Providers in this category, 9 changed their rate; among them 3 decreased it and 6 increased it. The 3 providers that kept their prices the same the whole month are: DIRECT ENERGY, FIRST CHOICE POWER and AMBIT ENERGY.
Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): 100% Green 12mo-Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| GEXA ENERGY | 9.4 |
| MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC | 9.5 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 9.9 |
| CLEANSKY ENERGY | 9.9 |
| OCTOPUS ENERGY | 10.1 |
| RHYTHM | 10.8 |
| AP GAS & ELECTRIC (TX) LLC | 11.0 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 11.0 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 11.3 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 11.7 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 11.8 |
| TXU ENERGY | 14.9 |
GEXA ENERGY had the lowest electricity rate spot while TXU ENERGY had the highest price spot in the above table. Seven of them (58%) changed their price within the month of June. Most of them increased their rate but one provider decreased it: MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC.
Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): 100% Green Variable Rate Plan:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.9 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 14.4 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 17.2 |
Only 1 REP, INFUSE ENERGY LLC, decreased its rate during the month of June 2021. The two other Retail Electric Providers of this table kept their rates the same.
* Data obtained from powertochoose.org (Power to Choose) for the days from 6/1/2021 to 6/30/2021. 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.