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On Oct 13, 2026, TexasHomeBills™ data shows 71 of 1,132 Power to Choose listings with a verified difference from the plan’s own EFL, and 66 of 734 ranked plans that would cost at least 1¢/kWh more than advertised for a home averaging 1,000 kWh a month (our estimate).
Original statistics on Texas retail electricity plans. We collect every plan on Power to Choose (the plan website of the Public Utility Commission of Texas) every day, and read each plan’s Electricity Facts Label (EFL).
TexasHomeBills is independent; these statistics are ours and are not endorsed by the PUCT.
Data as of Oct 13, 2026. Every number states what it counts and out of how many plans.Source: TexasHomeBills™ — https://texashomebills.com/data
Advertised price vs real cost
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66 of 734 plans would cost at least 1¢/kWh more than their advertised 1,000 kWh price for a home averaging 1,000 kWh a month (our estimate).
Power to Choose listings checked against each plan’s own EFL show a verified difference (60 price, 16 term, 1 cancellation fee). Every case is listed with the EFL line quoted.
Median estimated 12-month cost of ranked plans, by utility (AEP Texas Central to TNMP), at 1,000 kWh a month. Daily tracking since Oct 9, 2026; first monthly edition early November 2026.
Average residential price per kWh in Texas vs the U.S., July 2026 (EIA). Texas ranks 22 of 51 states + DC from the lowest price. All 50 states, three sectors.
EIA energy outlook: electricity and gas price projections
What the EIA projects for the next 12 months: wholesale electricity prices at major hubs, retail prices and Henry Hub gas, compared with the 12 months before. Projections, not observed prices.
Real statistics on the AI crawlers and agents that read this site since Oct 8, 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Google · Gemini, Perplexity and others, with the pages they read and how much we could verify.
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Where the data comes from
Power to Choose (powertochoose.org), run by the Public Utility Commission of Texas: every listed plan, its prices at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh, term, cancellation fee and fees text. Imported every day; duplicate English and Spanish listings of the same product are counted once.
Each plan’s Electricity Facts Label (EFL), the provider’s official price document. Our EFL readings are automated with fixed rules and checked against the prices published on Power to Choose; each page says how many plans could not be read or checked.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): average retail electricity price, sales, revenue and customers for every state, monthly. ERCOT and the PUCT: documents on large loads, peak demand records and forecasts, read as published.
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Frequently asked questions
What is TexasHomeBills data?
Free, original statistics on Texas retail electricity plans, published by TexasHomeBills™. Every day we collect every plan listed on Power to Choose (1,132 listings on Oct 13, 2026) and read each plan’s Electricity Facts Label (EFL), then publish data products: advertised price vs real cost, fees and bill credits, listing accuracy, the Texas Real Rate Index and daily price changes, plus U.S. electricity prices by state and Texas large-load (data center) demand from the EIA and ERCOT. TexasHomeBills is independent and not endorsed by the PUCT.
How many Texas electricity plan listings differ from their EFL?
On Oct 13, 2026, 71 of 1,132 Power to Choose listings (6.3%) showed a verified difference from the plan’s own EFL: 60 in price, 16 in contract term and 1 in cancellation fee (6 listings differ in more than one). Counting English and Spanish listings of the same product once, that is 52 of 984 products. Every case is listed with the EFL line quoted.
How much more do bill-credit plans really cost?
On Oct 13, 2026, the median gap between estimated real cost and advertised 1,000 kWh price was 8.3¢/kWh for the 60 bill-credit plans in the default rankings, compared with 0.0¢ for the other 674 plans. This is our estimate for a home averaging 1,000 kWh a month on a typical Texas seasonal usage profile, before taxes: a bill credit is missed in months when usage is below its threshold.
What is the median cancellation fee on Texas electricity plans?
On Oct 13, 2026, 889 of 984 active Texas electricity plans (90.3%) charged a cancellation fee. Among the 889 with a known amount, the median largest fee during the contract (the flat fee, or the per-month fee × contract months) was $175. The most common amounts were $150 flat (181 plans) and $20 per remaining month (182 plans).
Can I use this data?
Yes, free, with attribution: name TexasHomeBills™ and link to the page you used, for example “Source: TexasHomeBills™ — https://texashomebills.com/data”. Every product can be downloaded as CSV or JSON and is available through our free JSON API (no key needed for light use) and our MCP server for AI assistants.
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Named by what the crawler says it is; look-alikes we detect are counted under Others. Google · Gemini includes Googlebot, Google’s search crawler, whose index Google also uses for its AI features; other search engines and bots are in Others.
