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Texas commercial energy rates held at 7.06 cents/kWh on Oct 19, 2026 across 13,664 plans, as co-located data centers of 180 MW and 1,200 MW reached the PUCT.
Read the full report →Texas business electricity rates held at 7.08 cents/kWh on Oct 14, 2026 across 12,925 commercial electricity plans as the 75 MW large-load rule took effect.
Read the full report →AEP Texas North commercial electricity medians eased 0.06 cents to 6.43 cents/kWh on Oct 5, 2026, as the TCRI fell to 7.09 cents across 12,326 Texas plans.
Read the full report →Dallas-Fort Worth (Oncor) held the lowest commercial electricity median in Texas at 6.39 cents per kWh on Sept 28, 2026, as the TCRI sat at 7.17 cents across 11,375 plans.
Read the full report →Houston (CenterPoint) commercial electricity medians ran about 2.4% above Dallas (Oncor) on Sept 21, 2026, as the TCRI rose 1.4% to 7.20 cents across 10,233 plans.
Read the full report →Short-term Texas commercial electricity plans averaged 8.05 cents/kWh on Aug 31, 2026, 23% above mid-term, as the TCRI rose 1.3% to 7.33 cents across 7,940 plans.
Read the full report →Houston (CenterPoint) commercial electricity rates averaged 7.71 cents per kWh on Aug 24, 2026, highest of five Texas TDUs, as the TCRI rose 1.8 percent across 6,848 plans.
Read the full report →The marketwide average climbed, but 85 percent of plans that stayed on the shelf did not change price at all. The move came from catalog turnover, not repricing.
Read the full report →The TxCP Commercial Rate Index sits at 10.21 cents/kWh across 660 tracked commercial plans as our July 20 scrape logs 150 new, 23 repriced, and 257 removed plans. Updated weekly.
Read the full report →Live aggregate data on Texas commercial electricity rates by TDU territory and contract term. 549-plan snapshot from the TxCP catalog, July 17, 2026.
Read the full report →ERCOT approved new grid interconnection rules to manage 450 GW of data center demand requests. Here is what June 2026 commercial electricity rate data across all Texas utilities shows about short-term vs. long-term contract pricing.
Read the full report →Texas commercial electricity rates fell 9.3% across 304 tracked plans the week of May 12, 2026 with all five TDU territories posting double-digit declines.
Read the full report →Texas commercial electricity rates eased 0.7% the week of April 28, 2026 across 283 tracked plans. TNMP and CenterPoint led declines; Oncor edged up.
Read the full report →Texas commercial electricity rates fell 2.7% week-over-week as 395 plans exited the market, but among plans that stayed and changed, rates climbed an average of 25%. The composition shift, not pricing relief, is driving the headline decline.
Read the full report →Average Texas commercial electricity rates fell 2.1% week-over-week as a major plan withdrawal reshaped the available market, with AEP Central territory seeing the sharpest rate declines and long-term contracts posting the widest discount to short-term options.
Read the full report →Market-wide averages rose 5.6%, but the largest single-week portfolio reshuffling of 2026 tells a different story. Four of five TDU territories posted lower rates.
Read the full report →The next weekly report drops soon. Check back for fresh Texas commercial electricity market intelligence.