Texas Utilities: Who Serves Your Address?
- Gas Atmos Energy The most common Texas answer. Confirm your street.
- Water Your city or district Water in Texas is almost always city- or district-run.
- Electric Oncor Leads our Texas checks, territory lines decide.
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Texas electricity
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Where each provider led our address-level sampling. Toggle electric, gas, or water, then check your exact address.
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City guides for electric, gas, water and sewer. Still confirm your block with the lookup.
Most common providers across 23 Texas cities
From address-level sampling (2026-07-20). "Most common in" counts cities where that provider led.
| Utility | Provider | Most common in |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity | Oncor | Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Grand Prairie, Killeen, Mesquite, Waco, Midland, Round Rock |
| AEP Texas | Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen | |
| CenterPoint Energy | Houston | |
| Natural gas | Atmos Energy | Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Lubbock, Irving, Garland, Frisco, Amarillo, Grand Prairie, Killeen, Denton, Mesquite, Waco, Midland |
| Texas Gas Service | Austin, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Round Rock | |
| CenterPoint Energy | Houston | |
| Water | City of Houston | Houston |
| San Antonio Water System | San Antonio | |
| Dallas Water Utility | Dallas |
How Texas electricity actually works
In most of Texas, two different companies stand between you and your lights. A transmission and distribution utility (TDU). Oncor in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, CenterPoint Energy around Houston, and others. Owns the poles, wires and meters. TDUs deliver power and fix outages, and you never get to pick yours: it's determined entirely by your address. Separately, you choose a retail electricity provider, which is the company that sells you a plan and sends the bill.
The exceptions matter: Austin (Austin Energy), San Antonio (CPS Energy) and co-op territories opted out of deregulation, so residents there sign up directly with one utility and never shop for plans. Moving between these two worlds is exactly when people get confused, which is why checking your specific address beats any general rule.
Texas utility questions, answered
Who is my electric provider in Texas?
It depends on where you live. Texas has no statewide electric company. In most metro areas a transmission and distribution utility (TDU) such as Oncor or CenterPoint Energy owns the wires, and you separately choose a retail electricity plan. Cities like Austin and San Antonio instead have municipal utilities that handle everything. Enter your address in the lookup to see exactly who serves your home.
Can I choose my electricity provider in Texas?
Most Texans can. About 85% of the state is in the deregulated market, where you pick a retail electricity plan and the local TDU delivers the power. The big exceptions are municipal-utility cities (Austin Energy, CPS Energy in San Antonio) and electric co-op territory, where the utility that serves your address is your only option.
Who provides water in Texas cities?
Water is almost always local: each city runs its own water utility, and many suburbs are served by municipal utility districts (MUDs) or special water districts instead. That's why the water row changes more often than any other when you look up different addresses in the same metro.
How do I find all the utility providers for a Texas address?
Use the address lookup on this page. It checks your exact address against utility territory data and returns your electric, gas, water and sewer providers with phone numbers and sign-up links. More reliable than any city-level list, including this one.
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Provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine, aggregated from geographically spread sample addresses in each Texas city. Data refreshed 2026-07-20. Territories vary address by address. Always confirm yours with the lookup. Read how we verify provider data.