Texas Electricity: Who Serves Your Address?
There's no single answer in Texas, and that's by design. Most of the state is deregulated for electricity: a delivery utility like Oncor owns the wires while you choose your own retail plan. A handful of big cities (Austin, San Antonio) run municipal utilities instead. Gas, water and sewer are local in every city. Your address decides all of it.
- Texas wires Oncor Leads sampled checks near Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano.
- Also common AEP Texas AEP Texas covers other Texas pockets in the sample.
- Texas next step Run the street A Texas street check returns the wires company before you shop a plan.
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Texas electricity coverage
Oncor and AEP Texas lead many Texas electric checks near Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano. Skim the map, then verify the block.
Treat this Texas map as orientation only, never as a bill guarantee.
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Approximate Texas electric pattern from address checks. Your block can still differ.
Who shows up for Texas electricity
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| Provider | Most common in |
|---|---|
| Oncor | Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Grand Prairie, Killeen, Mesquite |
| AEP Texas | Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen |
| CenterPoint Energy | Houston |
| CPS Energy | San Antonio |
| Austin Energy | Austin |
| El Paso Electric Co | El Paso |
| Lubbock Power & Light System | Lubbock |
| City of Garland | Garland |
What movers often need for Texas electric
Facts from provider documentation we have verified. Your address still decides the company; details can vary by credit and location.
Oncor
Oncor is Texas's largest transmission and distribution utility. The wires company behind sampled addresses in thirteen of our Texas cities, covering the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and reaching down the I-35 corridor to Waco, Killeen and Round Rock and west to Midland. You never sign up with Oncor directly: in Texas's retail-choice market you buy a plan from a retail provider, while Oncor delivers the power, owns the meters and restores outages no matter whose name is on the bill.
Timing: Choose a retail electric provider (REP). The REP sends a move-in order to Oncor to initiate service at locations that already have electrical service or a meter.
AEP Texas
AEP Texas is the transmission and distribution utility for a huge arc of South Texas. In our sampling it delivered electricity at every sampled address in Corpus Christi, Laredo and McAllen. Like the other wires companies in Texas's retail-choice market, AEP Texas isn't who you buy your plan from: it owns the poles, wires and meters and restores outages, while a retail electric provider you pick sets the rate. Part of American Electric Power, it also covers stretches of West Texas beyond our sampled cities.
CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint Energy plays two different roles in our Texas sampling. In Houston it's the transmission and distribution utility. Every sampled address gets its power delivered over CenterPoint wires while residents pick their own retail plan, and it's also Houston's natural-gas utility at every sampled address. In San Antonio it appears in a supporting role, delivering gas at about one in five sampled addresses where CPS Energy doesn't. Outage restoration in its Houston territory is CenterPoint's job, whoever bills you.
Deposit / credit: Initial security deposit may be required. Waived if you provide a Guaranty Agreement or qualifying credit reference letter at least 3 days before the deposit is due. Deposit refunded/credited after 12 consecutive months of on-time full payments.
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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 electricity 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.
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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Electricity territories on this page come from our address-level mapping database for Texas (geographically spread sample addresses), not from inventing a statewide monopoly. Page published 2026-08-03; underlying sample refreshed 2026-07-22. Always confirm yours with the lookup. Read how we verify provider data.