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: SEPTEMBER vs AUGUST
AEP North Delivery Area– September 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common Plans (non-green):1
| Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| August | September | Trends | August | September | Trends | |
| Lowest | 9.2 | 9.2 |  0% |
8.7 | 10.4 |  20% |
| Highest | 12.8 | 15.8 | 23% |
16.9 | 18.5 | 9% |
| Average | 10.8 | 11.3 | 4% |
11.8 | 12.4 | 5% |
| Number of REPs | 31 | 32 |  3% |
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 AEP North delivery area, ELIGO ENERGY TEXAS LLC is also now offering a 12-month fixed rate plan. The number of providers in the variable rate category stayed the same between August and September.
Looking at the trends, the pricing for the first category increased when comparing September to August: +23% for the highest rate, +4% for the average. We also captured increases for the variable rate category: the lowest rate increased by 20%, the highest rate increased by 9%, and the average rate by 5%.
AEP North Delivery Area – September 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) | |||||
| August | September | Trends | August | September | Trends | |
| Lowest | 10.0 | 10.0 | 0% |
10.9 | 12.6 | 16% |
| Highest | 12.1 | 13.9 | 15% |
17.1 | 18.7 | 9% |
| Average | 11.2 | 11.5 | 2% |
13.7 | 15.5 | 14% |
| Number of REPs | 8 | 8 | 0% |
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 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 of all, let’s compare the number of providers showing offers. As we see in all the other delivery areas, CHARIOT ENERGY is back on the Power to Choose website and showing plans in the first category from this table. But in this delivery area, there is also MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC joining the game, as well as PULSE POWER LLC and ENERGY TO GO stopping to show offers in September. Those changes are not showing in the first category of the table above as the final number of providers remained the same.
Then, looking at trends, we also captured increases in this delivery area. The 100% green 12 month fixed rate plans’ increases are +15% for the highest and +2% for the average rate. The 100% green variable rate plans increases are +16% for the lowest and+9% for the highest, giving us a +14% for the average rate.
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LIST OF ENERGY PROVIDERS/ PRICES
AEP North Delivery Area – September 2021: List of Lowest Reported EFL Prices for an estimated 1000 kWh’s*
September 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 |
| FRONTIER UTILITIES | 9.8 |
| ELIGO ENERGY TX LLC | 10.0 |
| SPARK ENERGY LLC | 10.1 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 10.3 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 10.4 |
| VETERAN ENERGY | 10.4 |
| WINDROSE ENERGY | 10.5 |
| POWERNEXT | 10.7 |
| DISCOUNT POWER | 10.9 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 10.9 |
| CIRRO ENERGY | 11.0 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 11.0 |
| SUMMER ENERGY LLC | 11.0 |
| YEP | 11.0 |
| PESO POWER | 11.1 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 11.3 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 11.4 |
| AMIGO ENERGY | 11.5 |
| CHAMPION ENERGY SERVICES LLC | 11.5 |
| DIRECT ENERGY | 11.5 |
| FIRST CHOICE POWER | 11.5 |
| JUST ENERGY | 11.5 |
| TARA ENERGY | 11.5 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 11.8 |
| V247 POWER CORPORATION | 11.8 |
| RELIANT | 11.9 |
| WTU RETAIL ENERGY | 11.9 |
| CONSTELLATION NEWENERGY INC | 12.4 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 12.4 |
| TXU ENERGY | 13.2 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 15.8 |
In this month, 69% of these REPs changed their price. Most of them increased it; only 3 REPs did the opposite: ELIGO ENERGY TEXAS LLC, FIRST CHOICE POWER and WTU RETAIL ENERGY. THINK ENERGY offered the lowest price while AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest.
September 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) |
| RANCHERO POWER | 10.4 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 10.5 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 10.8 |
| YEP | 10.8 |
| RELIANT | 10.9 |
| TEXPO ENERGY | 11.0 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 12.5 |
| NEC CO-OP ENERGY | 13.0 |
| TXU ENERGY | 15.2 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.5 |
RANCHERO POWER and AMBIT ENERGY offered the lowest and highest price, respectively. Among these 10 REPs, 7 changed their price (5 increased it) within the month of September. We also captured that RANCHERO POWER and SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC were not showing offers every day on the Power to Choose website and increased their price when coming back with offers.
September 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 | 10.0 |
| MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC | 10.5 |
| CLEANSKY ENERGY | 10.9 |
| RHYTHM | 11.1 |
| AMPRA ENERGY | 11.7 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 11.8 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 11.9 |
| CHARIOT ENERGY | 13.9 |
GEXA ENERGY and CHARIOT ENERGY took the lowest and highest price spots in this category, respectively. Only two providers kept the same price during September: AMPRA ENERGY and CHARIOT ENERGY. All the others increased it.
September 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 | 12.6 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 15.3 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.7 |
Only AMBIT ENERGY showed the same price all month. INFUSE ENERGY LLC decreased their price while GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY increased it.
* Data obtained from powertochoose.org (Power to Choose) for the days from 9/1/2021 to 9/30/2021. 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.