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Across the 1,000 commercial plans tracked the week of August 25 to 31, 2026, five plans repriced and every one moved down. The 13 to 24 month band remains the cheapest point on the term curve.
Texas commercial electricity rates moved 1.3 percent higher week over week to 7.33 cents per kWh across 7,940 tracked plans as ERCOT data center audit widens fixed-contract risk premium.
Across 1,000 commercial plans tracked the week of August 18 to 24, 2026, contracts of 13 to 24 months averaged about 2.2 cents per kWh less than short-term plans. Only 12 plans repriced.
Texas commercial electricity rates rose 1.8 percent this week to $0.0743 per kWh on 6,848 tracked plans, with 4,677 plans repricing and CenterPoint holding the highest TDU average at $0.0771.
Of the 22 Texas commercial plans that repriced this week, 16 moved higher. All five TDU zones held flat or rose, and the headline average decline is a catalog re-index artifact, not a real price drop.
The tracked average jumped 36 percent this week. The market did not. On medians, Texas commercial rates fell 4.0 percent to 6.96 cents per kWh, and the term curve now bottoms at two years.
Every ERCOT TDU territory posted a lower average commercial rate this week, and matched plans fell 5.5 percent. The 13 to 24 month tier has now collapsed to within 2 percent of 36 month pricing.
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.
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.