Texas Electricity Prices

Texas sits mid-pack — 16.44¢ per kilowatt-hour in May 2026, 25th-highest of 51 and 15.3% below the national benchmark.

At Texas's May 2026 average of 16.44¢/kWh, 10,500 kWh of annual use works out to $1,726 a year — around $144 a month. Running the same 10,500 kWh calculation at the May 2026 national benchmark rate gives $2,038 — a $312 gap between the two published averages, less for Texas, not a bill either way.

Over the full EIA series the Texas jurisdiction average has risen 114% since January 2001, from 7.68¢ to 16.44¢ in May 2026 — a compound 3.0% per year. The path has been unusually smooth — Texas is among the steadiest third of jurisdictions month to month.

April 2026, at 16.99¢ per kilowatt-hour. The May 2026 reading of 16.44¢ sits 3.2% below that peak. The lowest monthly average on record was 7.44¢ in November 2002.

June. Measured over the 25 complete calendar years the EIA series covers for Texas, 2001 through 2025, June runs highest relative to its own year and January runs lowest — a swing of roughly 7.3 percentage points.

Among Texas and its land-border neighbours in May 2026, Oklahoma posts the lowest average at 13.38¢ and Texas the highest at 16.44¢. That makes Texas the most expensive in the group, at 16.44¢.

Almost certainly not exactly, and this is the one caveat that governs every figure on this page. The published value is the EIA residential average across every utility and residential rate class in Texas for May 2026 — a benchmark, never a billed amount. Even the jurisdiction figure is not one number — across the trailing year it moved between 15.26¢ in June 2025 and 16.99¢ in April 2026. Your own rate depends on your utility, tariff, usage tier, time-of-use schedule, and fixed monthly charges, none of which this index models. Read your bill for the rate that applies to you.