Average Electric Bill in Texas

The average electric bill in Texas was $171 a month in 2025, the 6th highest of the 50 states and DC and 13 percent above the national average, even though a kilowatt-hour cost 11 percent less here than in the country as a whole. The bill is high because Texas homes use a lot of power, and in EIA's household survey the biggest difference from the national average was air conditioning.

The bill figures are what utilities reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration for 2025: a year's residential revenue divided by customers and by 12, so fees and fixed charges are included. The breakdown of where the electricity goes comes from EIA's 2020 household survey, which included 1,016 Texas homes.

Texas Against the US

Where the Electricity Goes in a Texas Home

In EIA's survey, the average Texas home used 13,440 kWh a year, against 10,566 kWh nationally. Air conditioning accounted for 3,778 kWh, 28.1 percent of the total and 1.8 times the national figure of 2,055 kWh. The furnace fan that pushes cooled air through the ducts added another 588 kWh, against 307 nationally. Together, cooling used about 2,004 kWh a year more than in the average US home, which on its own covers most of the gap in use between Texas and the rest of the country.

Other uses are closer to the national pattern. Water heating used 1,466 kWh and electric space heating 1,411 kWh, both a little above the US averages. The survey year was 2020, and these are EIA's model estimates rather than appliance meter readings, but the cooling gap was the largest single difference between Texas homes and the national average in that survey.

Texas Bills Since 2015

The average Texas bill went from $136 a month in 2015 to $171 in 2025, up 26 percent. The US average rose 32 percent over the same years. Texas homes used a little less electricity in 2025 than in 2015, 1,110 kWh a month against 1,176, so the increase came from higher prices.

Most of the Texas increase came in one step: the average bill was $132 in 2021 and $162 in 2022. These yearly figures are calculated from the revenue and customer counts each electricity provider reports to EIA, the same method behind EIA's own 2025 bill table, which it reproduces exactly.

House or Apartment

A Texas house uses about 1,259 kWh a month in the survey and an apartment about 724. At the 2025 Texas average price, that comes to roughly $194 and $111 a month. If your bill is well above the figure for your type of home, cooling is the first place to look.

Texas and Its Neighbors

Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas also pair below-average prices with above-average use, while New Mexico use less than the national average. See every state in the full state table.

Reliability in Texas

Bills and reliability are separate questions. Texas customers averaged 13.7 hours without power a year from 2021 to 2025, ranking 4th of 49 states and DC with five full years of data, and 81 percent of that time fell on major event days. Our page on power outages by state explains the figures, and do you need a generator? lists the 2025 record for Texas's larger utilities.

The spread between utilities is wide. Among Texas utilities with at least 100,000 customers, the shortest outage time in 2025 was at Denton County Elec Coop, Inc (0.82 hours), El Paso Electric Co (0.92 hours), Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc (1.5 hours), and the longest at Southwestern Electric Power Co (7.79 hours), Southwestern Public Service Co (7.36 hours), Entergy Texas Inc. (6.72 hours). Customers of the worst-performing large utility spent about 10 times as long without power as customers of the best one.

Those utility figures are for a single year, and one storm can move them a long way, so treat a bad 2025 as a reason to look at your own utility's record over several years rather than as a verdict. Look up the company that delivers your power, which may not be the one you buy it from.

What to Do With This

If your own bill jumped between 2021 and 2022, compare your kWh and your rate for those two years: the state average rose by $30 a month that year while average use changed far less, but only your own bills can show what changed for you. Compare the kWh on your last few bills with the 1,110 kWh Texas average. If you are close, your bill is normal for the state, and the remaining lever is the rate or plan you pay. If you are well above, start with cooling: thermostat settings, the age and condition of the air conditioner, and how well the house keeps heat out. Then look at the water heater; our page on electric water heater electricity use shows how much that can add.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Data

• EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, 2025 Average Monthly Bill (Residential)
• EIA 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), public use microdata v7
• EIA Electric Power Annual, Table 11.4 (SAIDI by state, 2015-2025)

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