Municipal utility in Texas
Austin Energy electricity rates, 2025
Austin Energy's full-service residential customers paid an average of 13.1¢ per kWh in 2025, 14.7% less than the Texas average of 15.4¢ and 23.7% less than the 2025 U.S. average of 17.2¢ from the same EIA-861 survey. That was up 4.5% from 12.6¢ in 2024.
Austin Energy is the 2nd largest of the 79 Texas utilities listed, with 4.1% of the state's residential customers.
Residential rate, 2025
13.1¢
per kWh, revenue divided by sales
Versus the Texas average
−14.7%
Texas 15.4¢ per kWh
Average monthly bill
$110
835 kWh a month
Residential customers
522,446
4.1% of Texas's homes
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 annual survey, Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025. Averages over the year for full-service residential customers.
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By customer class
Austin Energy average rates by customer class, 2025
Revenue divided by sales for each class of full-service customer, beside the residential rate's one-year change and the U.S. average from the same survey.
| Customer class | ¢ per kWh, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Residential | 13.1¢ |
| Commercial | 11.0¢ |
| Industrial | 7.1¢ |
One-year change, 2024 to 2025
+4.5%
12.6¢ per kWh in 2024
U.S. average, 2025 (EIA-861)
17.2¢
residential, per kWh; Austin Energy's 13.1¢ was 23.7% less than it
Other Texas utilities
How Austin Energy compares with Texas's other large utilities
Average residential rate in 2025 at the largest other Texas utilities. The full table lists all 79.
- City of San AntonioMunicipal, 888,946 customers12.4¢
- Entergy TexasInvestor-owned, 469,094 customers13.9¢
- Pedernales Electric CooperativeCooperative, 420,753 customers12.8¢
- El Paso Electric CoInvestor-owned, 320,320 customers13.9¢
- Denton County Electric CooperativeCooperative, 310,805 customers13.2¢
- Southwestern Public Service CoInvestor-owned, 223,685 customers13.9¢
Method
Where this comes from
- Source
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025 (and 2024 for the one-year change). File: f8612025.zip.
- How the figures are computed
- Average rate is a utility's residential revenue divided by its residential kWh sales for the year. Average bill is revenue per customer divided by twelve; monthly use is kWh sales per customer divided by twelve.
- Which customers count
- Full-service customers only: those who buy both supply and delivery from the company, so the rate includes both. Listed: companies with at least 1,000 full-service residential customers in Texas. EIA's adjustment rows and rooftop solar owners count toward the Texas average but are not listed.
- State average
- All Texas residential revenue divided by all residential sales in the same survey, summed the way EIA sums a state total. Data refreshed October 19, 2026.
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