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: OCTOBER vs SEPTEMBER
CenterPoint Delivery Area – October 2021: Rates and Trends for Most Common Plans:1
| Fixed Rate (cents/kWh) 12mo Plans |
Variable Rate (cents/kWh) | |||||
| September | October | Trends | September | October | Trends | |
| Lowest | 9.5 | 11.8 |  24% |
10.3 | 12.1 | 17% |
| Highest | 16.8 | 16.8 |  0% |
18.5 | 18.5 | 0% |
| Average | 11.6 | 12.9 | 12% |
12.3 | 13.6 | 10% |
| Number of REPs | 31 | 29 |  -6% |
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 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 electric providers offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
In the CenterPoint delivery area, ELIGO ENERGY TX LLC, V247 POWER CORPORATION, PESO POWER and FIRST CHOICE POWER are the electric providers captured leaving the game in the fixed-rate, 12-month plan category. We captured that PESO POWER is the only provider still offering another kind of plan, all the others are no longer showing any plans on the Power to Choose website. On the other hand, VARSITY ENERGY LLC and TRUE POWER started to show plans in October, explaining a 6% decrease in the table. Regarding trends, the fixed rate, 12-month plan category increased in price in this delivery area: +24% for the lowest rate and +12% for the average rate which is explained by most of the electricity providers increasing their prices in October. The variable rate category also had some increases: +17% for the lowest rate and +10% for the average rate. Here also more than half of them increased their prices this month.
CenterPoint Delivery Area – October 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) | |||||
| September | October | Trends | September | October | Trends | |
| Lowest | 10.0 | 11.9 | 19% |
10.7 | 12.5 | 17% |
| Highest | 14.9 | 14.3 |  -4% |
18.7 | 18.7 | 0% |
| Average | 11.6 | 12.8 | 10% |
13.6 | 15.7 | 16% |
| Number of REPs | 10 | 9 | -10% |
3 | 4 |  33% |
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 electric providers offering that type of plan in this region for each month.
As in all the other delivery areas, AMPRA ENERGY is also not showing products anymore in this first category for the 100% green plans. They are following the same path as their affiliate, PESO POWER, and are now offering another kind of plan. As in the other delivery areas, CHARIOT ENERGY is offering a new 100% green variable rate plan, explaining the +33% variation in the number of Retail Electric Providers in the table above.
Regarding trends, we also captured variations in the 100% green table: the lowest rate increased by 19%, the average increased by 10% but the highest rate decreased by 4% for the first category. The second category has a slightly different trend: the lowest rate increased by 17%, the average rate also increased by 16% but the highest rate did not change.
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LIST OF ENERGY PROVIDERS/ PRICES
CenterPoint Delivery Area – October 2021: List of Lowest Reported EFL Prices for an estimated 1000 kWh’s*
October 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 | 11.8 |
| EXPRESS ENERGY | 12.0 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 12.1 |
| DISCOUNT POWER | 12.1 |
| THINK ENERGY | 12.1 |
| WINDROSE ENERGY | 12.1 |
| CIRRO ENERGY | 12.2 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 12.3 |
| VARSITY ENERGY LLC | 12.3 |
| VETERAN ENERGY | 12.3 |
| YEP | 12.3 |
| TRUE POWER | 12.5 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 12.6 |
| POWERNEXT | 12.7 |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 12.7 |
| AMIGO ENERGY | 12.9 |
| DIRECT ENERGY | 12.9 |
| JUST ENERGY | 12.9 |
| TARA ENERGY | 12.9 |
| RELIANT | 13.0 |
| SUMMER ENERGY LLC | 13.0 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 13.1 |
| CHAMPION ENERGY SERVICES LLC | 13.3 |
| SPARK ENERGY LLC | 13.3 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 13.8 |
| PULSE POWER LLC | 13.9 |
| TXU ENERGY | 14.2 |
| ENERGY TO GO | 14.4 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 16.8 |
FRONTIER UTILITIES held the lowest price spot and AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest rate in this plan category in October. Of the electricity providers in this list, 60% changed their price and they all increased it.
October 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) |
| SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC | 12.1 |
| RANCHERO POWER | 12.2 |
| RELIANT | 12.4 |
| SOUTHWEST POWER & LIGHT | 12.7 |
| YEP | 12.7 |
| TEXPO ENERGY | 12.9 |
| INFUSE ENERGY LLC | 13.3 |
| NEC CO-OP ENERGY | 13.4 |
| TXU ENERGY | 15.6 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.5 |
SOUTHERN FEDERAL POWER LLC offered the lowest price this month while AMBIT ENERGY offered the highest price. Of the 10 Retail Electric Providers in this category, 7 changed their rates and increased it.
October 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) |
| GEXA ENERGY | 11.9 |
| CLEANSKY ENERGY | 12.2 |
| MP2 ENERGY TEXAS LLC | 12.3 |
| OCTOPUS ENERGY | 12.7 |
| 4CHANGE ENERGY | 12.8 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 12.8 |
| CHARIOT ENERGY | 12.9 |
| RHYTHM | 12.9 |
| TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP | 14.3 |
GEXA ENERGY offered the lowest electricity rate spot while TRIEAGLE ENERGY LP had the highest price spot in the above table. 56% of those electricity providers changed their prices in October. Among them, all but one (CHARIOT ENERGY) increased it.
October 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 | 12.5 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY | 15.6 |
| CHARIOT ENERGY | 16.0 |
| AMBIT ENERGY | 18.7 |
INFUSE ENERGY LLC increased their prices, GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY decreased it and the two others kept the same price in October.
* Data obtained from powertochoose.org (Power to Choose) for the days from 10/1/2021 to 10/31/20211. 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.