AEP Texas North: delivery rates in rural West Texas
AEP Texas North delivers electricity to 158,488 homes in Texas but sells none: residential customers buy from a retail electric provider of their choice, who bills the delivery charges too.1 In 2025 AEP Texas North's residential delivery revenue averaged 5.86¢ per kWh, about $57.47 a month per home; Texas retail providers' residential customers paid 17.23¢ per kWh on average, delivery included.
EIA-861 2025 final, released October 7, 2026; the next annual release is due in August 2027. Averages are revenue divided by kWh, all charges included: not the rate printed in a tariff.
51 of 254 Texas counties served (EIA-861 2025)
AEP Texas North runs the wires for 158,000 homes spread over 514 mostly rural counties of West and Central Texas, but sells them no electricity. Its homes use less power than the Texas average, so its delivery charges came to a smaller monthly sum than at the big Dallas and Houston wires companies, even after its average per kWh rose +7.7%1 in 2025.
AEP Texas North is a transmission and distribution utility, or TDU: one of the 61 companies that EIA counts as delivery-only utilities in Texas. It builds and maintains the lines, connects homes, reads meters and handles outages; a retail electric provider buys the energy, sets the plan price and bills the customer, passing AEP Texas North's charges through. EIA lists its balancing authority as ERCOT, the grid operator for most of Texas. The company, filed with EIA as AEP Texas North Company, belongs to American Electric Power (AEP), which has a page comparing its utilities.
Delivery per kWh: middle of the six
In 2025 AEP Texas North billed an average of 5.86¢ per kWh for each kWh it delivered to its 158,4881 residential customers. That figure is average revenue per kWh, total residential delivery revenue divided by residential kWh, so it folds the fixed monthly customer and metering charges into the per-kWh number; it is not a rate printed in the tariff, and it covers delivery only, with no energy charge in it.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. What each transmission and distribution utility billed (through retail providers) for delivering power to residential customers, divided by their kWh (EIA-861 2025, delivery companies). Delivery only: the retail provider adds the energy charge.
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| Delivery utility | ¢/kWh | Residential customers |
|---|---|---|
| Oncor | 5.64¢ | 3,545,814 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 5.41¢ | 2,529,039 |
| AEP Texas Central | 5.91¢ | 793,896 |
| TNMP | 7.09¢ | 237,930 |
| AEP Texas North | 5.86¢ | 158,488 |
| Lubbock Power & Light | 6.31¢ | 94,738 |
Among the delivery utilities that was the 3rd lowest. CenterPoint Energy (5.41¢ per kWh) and Oncor (5.64¢ per kWh) averaged less; AEP Texas Central (5.91¢ per kWh), Lubbock Power & Light (6.31¢ per kWh) and TNMP (7.09¢ per kWh1) averaged more. All figures are for 2025.
The year it caught up with AEP Texas Central
AEP's two Texas delivery companies used to sit further apart. In 2024 AEP Texas North's residential average was 5.44¢ per kWh against 5.75¢ per kWh2 for AEP Texas Central, the company's other Texas delivery utility. In 2025 North rose +7.7% to 5.86¢ per kWh while Central rose +2.8% to 5.91¢ per kWh, leaving the two almost level. North's increase was smaller than CenterPoint's (+9.7%), Oncor's (+8.7%) and TNMP's (+12.0%1) between the same two years.
EIA's census reports the averages but not the filings behind them. The charges themselves change through rate cases and periodic cost-recovery adjustments approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas; a retail provider's Electricity Facts Label shows the delivery charges it currently passes on.
Why the monthly delivery cost stays lower
Per kWh, AEP Texas North sits in the middle. Per home, it is near the bottom, because its residential customers used an average of 981 kWh a month in 2025, less than the Texas average of 1,110 kWh3 and less than at Oncor (1,106 kWh), CenterPoint (1,124 kWh) or AEP Texas Central (1,154 kWh1).
That works out to about $57.47 a month in delivery charges per home in 2025, compared with $68.16 at AEP Texas Central, $62.35 at Oncor, $60.74 at CenterPoint and $81.64 at TNMP. Only Lubbock Power & Light, where homes used 874 kWh, came in lower at $55.171. A household that uses more than the area's average pays more than this in delivery, since much of the charge is billed per kWh.
Businesses on AEP Texas North's lines paid far less per kWh for delivery: 1.20¢ per kWh for its 37,850 commercial accounts and 1.60¢ per kWh for its 5,084 industrial accounts in 2025. Its commercial average was below its industrial one, the reverse of AEP Texas Central (3.62¢ per kWh commercial, 1.04¢ per kWh1 industrial).
What homes paid with energy included
No single all-in price exists for AEP Texas North's area: each home's total depends on the retail plan it picked. EIA reports only statewide figures for retail providers. Across all of them, Texas residential customers paid an average of 17.23¢ per kWh in 2025, delivery included; among the 38 providers with 10,000 or more residential customers, yearly averages ranged from 8.03¢ per kWh (Southern Federal Power, LLC) to 20.86¢ per kWh1 (Young Energy, LLC). These are past averages over every plan and every delivery area each provider served, not offers and not prices for this area.
That statewide provider average and AEP Texas North's delivery average cover different things and should be read side by side, not added: the first is a whole bill, the second only the wires part of it. To compare current plans for an address on AEP Texas North's lines, including the price at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh with delivery built in, use the Public Utility Commission's Power to Choose. Our Texas retail choice guide explains the Electricity Facts Label.
Counties in the service area
EIA's service-territory file places AEP Texas North in 514 counties. They run from Wichita, Wilbarger and Hardeman counties on the Oklahoma line, through Taylor and Tom Green counties, to Pecos, Reeves, Brewster and Presidio counties in the far west, and southeast to Gillespie County in the Hill Country.
Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 51 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.
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| County | Other utilities reporting service |
|---|---|
| Archer County | Oncor, TNMP, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Fort Belknap Electric Cooperative, J-A-C Electric Cooperative, Southwest Rural Electric Association |
| Baylor County | Oncor, TNMP, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Southwest Rural Electric Association, City of Seymour |
| Brewster County | Rio Grande Electric Cooperative |
| Briscoe County | Xcel Energy, Swisher Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative |
| Brown County | Oncor, Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association |
| Callahan County | Taylor Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association |
| Childress County | SWEPCO, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative, Harmon Electric Association |
| Coke County | Oncor, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative |
| Coleman County | Oncor, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative, City of Coleman |
| Concho County | Oncor, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Cottle County | Xcel Energy, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative |
| Crane County | Oncor |
| Crockett County | TNMP, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Dickens County | South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative |
| Eastland County | Oncor, TNMP, United Electric Cooperative Service, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association |
| Edwards County | AEP Texas Central, Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Medina Electric Cooperative, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Fisher County | Oncor, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Foard County | Xcel Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Southwest Rural Electric Association |
| Gillespie County | Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, City of Fredericksburg |
| Hall County | SWEPCO, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative |
| Hardeman County | South Plains Electric Cooperative, Southwest Rural Electric Association, Harmon Electric Association |
| Haskell County | Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Irion County | Oncor, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Jeff Davis County | Rio Grande Electric Cooperative |
| Jones County | Taylor Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Kent County | Oncor, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Kimble County | Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Central Texas Electric Cooperative |
| King County | Tri-County Electric Cooperative, South Plains Electric Cooperative |
| Knox County | Tri-County Electric Cooperative |
| Mason County | Oncor, Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, City of Mason |
| McCulloch County | Oncor, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, City of Brady |
| Menard County | Oncor, Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Motley County | Xcel Energy, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative |
| Nolan County | Oncor, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Pecos County | Oncor, TNMP, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Presidio County | Rio Grande Electric Cooperative |
| Reagan County | Oncor, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Reeves County | Oncor, TNMP, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative |
| Runnels County | Taylor Electric Cooperative, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative |
| Schleicher County | Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Shackelford County | Oncor, Taylor Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative, Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association, Fort Belknap Electric Cooperative |
| Stephens County | Oncor, TNMP, United Electric Cooperative Service, Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association, Fort Belknap Electric Cooperative |
| Sterling County | Oncor, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative |
| Stonewall County | Tri-County Electric Cooperative, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative |
| Sutton County | Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Taylor County | Taylor Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative |
| Throckmorton County | Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Big Country Electric Cooperative, Fort Belknap Electric Cooperative |
| Tom Green County | Oncor, Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Upton County | Oncor, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative |
| Wichita County | Oncor, Southwest Rural Electric Association, City of Electra |
| Wilbarger County | Oncor, Xcel Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Southwest Rural Electric Association |
In all 514 of those counties at least one other utility, often an electric cooperative or a city utility, also reports customers. Homes served by a co-op or a city utility outside the competitive market cannot choose a retail provider, so the county does not settle who delivers to a given house: the ESI ID printed on a bill, or the delivery utility itself, can confirm it.
Outages and smart meters
In EIA's 2025 reliability data AEP Texas North's customers spent less time without power than those of most Texas delivery utilities. Its customers averaged 133 minutes without power counting major storms (fewer than the Texas average of 225 minutes) and 106 minutes on ordinary days, with 1.416 interruptions per customer, measured under the IEEE 1366 standard.
Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | outage minutes per customer (all events) |
|---|---|
| Lubbock Power & Light (TX) | 111 |
| AEP Texas North (TX) | 133 |
| TNMP (TX) | 165 |
| CenterPoint Energy (TX) | 193 |
| AEP Texas Central (TX) | 205 |
| Oncor (TX) | 232 |
AEP Texas Central's customers averaged 205 minutes and CenterPoint's 193 minutes on the same basis. Oncor (232 minutes) and TNMP (165 minutes6) report under another method, so their figures are a rougher comparison. Power outages on AEP Texas North's lines are reported to AEP Texas, not to the retail provider.
Every residential meter in the area is an advanced meter (100.0%7 in 2025), which records use in short intervals and lets retail providers offer time-of-use and other plans. The Texas page covers the state's full-service utilities, with a county-by-county table of who reports service where.
AEP Texas North questions
What are AEP Texas North's delivery rates per kWh?
EIA's annual census puts AEP Texas North's residential delivery revenue at 5.86¢ per kWh1 in 2025: everything it billed for delivering power to homes, monthly customer charges included, divided by the kWh they used. That is an average, not a tariff line; the approved charges are set by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and appear on each plan's Electricity Facts Label.
Did AEP Texas North's delivery charges go up?
Its residential delivery average rose from 5.44¢ per kWh2 in 2024 to 5.86¢ per kWh in 2025 (+7.7%1). EIA's figures for 2026 come with the next annual census in August 2027.
Is AEP Texas North my electricity provider?
No. It owns the poles, wires and meters and restores outages, but homes on its lines buy electricity from a retail electric provider they choose, and that provider sends the bill. Plans for your address are listed on the state's Power to Choose site.
Related pages
Sources
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2024; 2024, final (file updated December 3, 2025); released December 3, 2025. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; table Average_Bill_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, service territory; table Service_Territory_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties; table cb_2025_us_county_5m; cb_2021_us_county_5m; 2025 (2021 for Connecticut). www.census.gov
- EIA-861 2025, reliability; table Reliability_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, advanced meters, dynamic pricing and net metering; table Advanced_Meters, Dynamic_Pricing, Net_Metering 2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.