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
CenterPoint Delivery Area – November 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common Plans1
| Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| October | November | Trends | October | November | Trends | |
| Lowest | 11.8 | 11.7 |  -1% |
12.1 | 11.9 | -2% |
| Highest | 16.8 | 16.8 |  0% |
18.5 | 18.5 | 0% |
| Average | 12.9 | 13.1 |  1% |
13.6 | 13.7 | 1% |
| Number of REPs | 29 | 26 |  -10% |
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.
In the CenterPoint delivery area, DIRECT ENERGY, SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC and RANCHERO POWER stopped showing plans on the Power to Choose website in November. Those providers are still offering other categories of plans on the Power to Choose website.
Regarding trends, the fixed rate, 12-month plan category did not vary a lot from October to November. Our team only captured -1% for the lowest rate and +1% for the average one. The variable rate category also had little variation: -2% for the lowest rate and +1% for the average rate.
CenterPoint Delivery Area – November 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common 100% Green Plans1
| 100 % green, Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
100 % green, Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| October | November | Trends | October | November | Trends | |
| Lowest | 11.9 | 10.9 | -9% |
12.5 | 12.0 | -4% |
| Highest | 14.3 | 14.3 | 0% |
18.7 | 18.7 | 0% |
| Average | 12.8 | 12.5 | -2% |
15.7 | 15.1 | -4% |
| Number of REPs | 9 | 11 |  22% |
4 | 4 | 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, let’s look at the providers. The first category gained two new providers: ENERGY TEXAS and BRANCH ENERGY. The latter REP started to show offers in all the delivery areas and was certified recently this year by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) while the former REP was certified in 2020. This explains the +22% in the number of Retail Energy Providers (REPs) in the table above. In the second plan category, while the number of providers was steady, we captured that CHARIOT ENERGY is no longer offering plans in this product category but ENERGY TEXAS entered the game offering 100% green products only.
Second, looking at the rate variations in the first plan category, the lowest rate decreased by 9% and the average rate decreased by 2%. In the second plan category, the lowest rate also decreased (-4%), the highest one did not change, and the average decreased by 4%.
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LIST OF ENERGY PROVIDERS/ PRICES
CenterPoint Delivery Area – November 2021: List of Lowest Reported EFL Prices for an estimated 1000 kWh’s*
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): Non-100% Green 12-month Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| FRONTIER UTILITIES | 11.7 |
| TRUE POWER | 11.8 |
| EXPRESS ENERGY | 12.0 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 12.1 |
| THINK ENERGY | 12.1 |
| VETERAN ENERGY | 12.3 |
| VARSITY ENERGY LLC | 12.4 |
| WINDROSE ENERGY | 12.4 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 12.5 |
| POWERNEXT | 12.6 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 12.7 |
| YEP | 12.7 |
| SUMMER ENERGY LLC | 12.8 |
| TARA ENERGY | 12.9 |
| CIRRO ENERGY | 13.0 |
| DISCOUNT POWER | 13.1 |
| CHAMPION ENERGY SERVICES LLC | 13.4 |
| SPARK ENERGY LLC | 13.4 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 13.6 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 13.8 |
| AMIGO ENERGY | 13.9 |
| JUST ENERGY | 13.9 |
| RELIANT | 13.9 |
| TXU ENERGY | 14.2 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 14.3 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 16.8 |
FRONTIER UTILITIES held the lowest price spot and AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest rate in this plan category in November. Of the electricity providers in this list, 62% changed their price and most of them decreased it (11) even if 5 did the opposite and increased it.
November 2021: 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) |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.9 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 12.1 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 12.2 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 13.0 |
| YEP | 13.0 |
| TEXPO ENERGY | 13.2 |
| NEC CO-OP ENERGY | 13.4 |
| RELIANT | 13.9 |
| TXU ENERGY | 15.6 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.5 |
INFUSE ENERGY LLC offered the lowest price this month while AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest price. Of the 10 REPs in this category, 5 changed their rates at the beginning of the month but we can’t draw a common trend as 3 decreased it and 2 increased it.
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): 100% Green 12-month Fixed Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| ENERGY TEXAS | 10.87 |
| BRANCH ENERGY | 11.44 |
| GEXA ENERGY | 11.80 |
| MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC | 11.90 |
| OCTOPUS ENERGY | 12.00 |
| CLEANSKY ENERGY | 12.10 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 12.80 |
| RHYTHM | 12.90 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 13.70 |
| CHARIOT ENERGY | 13.90 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 14.30 |
ENERGY TEXAS offered the lowest electricity rate while TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP had the highest price spot in the above table. 64% of those electricity providers changed their prices in November. Among them, 3 decreased it and 4 did the opposite.
November 2021: Lowest Electricity Prices in Houston, Texas (or CenterPoint TDU area): 100% Green Variable Rate Plans:
(lowest to highest rate)
| Energy Providers | Rate for 1000 kWh (¢/kWh) |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 12.0 |
| ENERGY TEXAS | 13.8 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 15.7 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.7 |
Only INFUSE ENERGY LLC and Energy TEXAS decreased their prices.
* Data obtained from powertochoose.org (Power to Choose) for the days from 11/1/2021 to 11/30/20211. 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.