Electricity plans in AEP Texas Central territory

AEP Texas Central Company is the TDU for your area. TDU stands for Transmission and Distribution Utility. AEP Texas Central owns the poles, the wires, and the meters. It delivers electricity to your home, reads your meter, and fixes outages. Its territory runs along South Texas and the coast, including Corpus Christi, Victoria, Laredo, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Here is the key fact: AEP Texas Central does not sell you electricity. You buy your power from a retail electric provider. You can pick any provider that serves the area. The provider bills you. Part of that bill passes through to AEP Texas Central for delivery. You cannot choose your TDU. It comes with your address.

AEP operates two separate Texas territories with different delivery rates. This page covers the Central territory. The North territory has its own page.

State regulators set AEP Texas Central’s delivery charges. The charges are the same for every plan in the territory:

• A monthly charge of $3.24 per home.
• A delivery rate of 5.83¢ per kWh.

At 1,000 kWh of monthly usage, that works out to about $61.51 of your bill going to delivery. No plan can discount it. No plan pays more. Some plans advertise low delivery charges. They are advertising something they do not control.

These rates change on a state schedule, usually in March and September. The numbers on this page come from our live data. They update when AEP Texas Central’s rates do.

Most plans in AEP Texas Central territory list delivery charges as their own line on your bill. Some plans fold them into the energy rate instead. Then you see one combined number. Either way the money reaches AEP Texas Central. The amount is the same. The plan’s Electricity Facts Label states which way it works.

This matters when you compare plans. Two plans can present the same delivery cost two different ways. Compare total cost, not the shape of the line items.

Right now 115 plans compete for homes in AEP Texas Central territory. Every one delivers over the same AEP Texas Central wires. Same delivery charges. Same reliability. The only real difference is the supply price and the fine print.

That fine print is where the games live. Bill credits with usage windows. Minimum usage fees. Rates built to look cheap at exactly 1,000 kWh. Our bill-credit guide covers the most common trick. Our high-bill guide covers what to do if you are already caught in one.

Our rankings price every plan in AEP Texas Central territory against your own twelve months of usage. Delivery charges are included. Here is how.