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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.