We serve the parts of Texas where you choose your provider.
Most Texans live in the deregulated market, where the wires are run by a delivery utility you don't choose and the electricity comes from a provider you do. watt marshal prices plans in all five delivery areas. If your home is in one of them, we can rank your plans.
The five delivery areas
Your delivery utility is printed on your bill, usually near the charges labelled "TDU" or "delivery". The cities are the big ones in each area, not the whole list — boundaries run by ZIP and sometimes by street.
Oncor
The largest area in the state: Dallas–Fort Worth and most of north, central and west Texas.
CenterPoint Energy
Houston and the surrounding counties along the upper Gulf Coast.
AEP Texas
Two AEP areas, Central and North: the Coastal Bend, the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and Abilene–San Angelo.
Texas-New Mexico Power
Smaller areas near Houston's south side, in north Texas, and in far west Texas.
Lubbock Power & Light
The newest area in the market: Lubbock's city utility moved its customers to retail choice in 2024.
Not in the market
If your electricity comes from a city-owned utility, a co-op, or one of the regulated utilities, you don't shop for a provider and there is nothing for us to rank. A few of the larger ones:
- Austin — Austin Energy
- San Antonio — CPS Energy
- El Paso — El Paso Electric
- Beaumont and Southeast Texas — Entergy Texas
- Amarillo and the Panhandle — Xcel Energy
- Longview, Texarkana and Northeast Texas — SWEPCO
- Electric co-ops — Pedernales, Bluebonnet, CoServ, and dozens more
- Other city utilities — Georgetown, Denton, Garland, Bryan, and others
In one of the five? Be first in line.
Leave an email and you'll hear from us once — the day the ZIP box goes live.