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CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint Energy served 2,529,039 residential customers in Texas in 2025 (19.8% of the state's residential customers), the 2nd largest of 6 delivery-only wires utilities with residential customers in EIA's Texas Delivery Companies table. Delivery-only service; ownership: investor owned; balancing authority ERCO.
Wires, not energyEIA-861 Delivery Companies
Part of the bill.
In the parts of Texas open to retail choice, CenterPoint Energy owns the poles and wires and delivers the power, and homes buy the energy itself from a retail electric provider. EIA reports wires companies in a separate Delivery Companies table and notes that their customers are already counted by the retail providers, so the price, use and bill above are delivery charges alone, are not a whole bill, and are never added to a Texas total on this site.
Offers on its linesPower to Choose, 2026-10-21
177 offers.
On 2026-10-21, the state's Power to Choose site listed 177 residential offers from 44 retail providers for homes on CenterPoint Energy's lines. Each offer's price at 1,000 kWh a month is the average price per kWh from its Electricity Facts Label; half of the offers were at or below 13.1¢. The label's average price already includes CenterPoint Energy's delivery charges, so do not add the delivery figure above to it. Offers change daily, so this is a dated count, not a quote; read the label of any plan you consider.
- Median at 1,000 kWh
- 13.1¢per kWh, middle of 177 offers
- Middle half
- 12.0 to 14.2¢25th to 75th percentile
- Fixed-rate offers
- 161of 177
- 100% renewable
- 45offers
- Prepaid
- 5offers
- Median contract
- 12.0months
The meter, one average month.
Scroll to run 30 days of CenterPoint Energy's average residential use through a five-dial register.
- Used so far
- 1,124 kWh
- At 5.41¢/kWh
- $60.74
Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh
Where 5.41¢ sits.
This page covers delivery-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 5.41¢ is not compared with the Texas bundled average of 15.4¢. Both are drawn for scale only.
2020 and 2025EIA-861
Five years, same meter.
In 2020 the average CenterPoint Energy home used 1,143 kWh a month at 4.08¢ and paid $46.63. In 2025 it used 1,124 kWh at 5.41¢ and paid $60.74: the price per kWh is up 32.5%.
| Measure | 2020 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, ¢/kWh | 4.08 | 5.41 |
| Use, kWh a month | 1,143 | 1,124 |
| Bill, US$ a month | 46.63 | 60.74 |
| Class | Customers | MWh delivered | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 2,529,039 | 34,101,189 | 5.41 |
| Commercial | 326,934 | 29,549,005 | 3.84 |
| Industrial | 2,055 | 47,345,506 | 1.06 |
| Transportation | 1 | 57,877 | 3.11 |
Who else is on the line
Homes are one class.
Homes took 30.7% of the electricity CenterPoint Energy delivered in Texas in 2025.
Service territoryEIA-861
12 counties.
AustinBrazoriaChambersColoradoFort BendGalvestonHarrisLibertyMatagordaMontgomeryWallerWharton
Counties in Texas where CenterPoint Energy reported serving customers in 2025 (12 in all; up to 24 listed).
EIA-8612025Utility 8901
The filing, line by line.
| Measure | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | 5.41 | ¢/kWh |
| Texas average price | 15.4 | ¢/kWh |
| Price change over 5 years | 32.5 | % |
| Typical monthly use | 1,124 | kWh |
| Typical monthly bill | 60.74 | US$ |
| Residential customers | 2,529,039 | accounts |
| Share of TX residential customers | 19.8 | % |
| Size rank in TX | 2 of 6 | by customers |
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