Lubbock Power & Light rates: what delivery costs a Lubbock home

LP&L rates per kWh: only the delivery part

Since 2024 there has been no single LP&L rate per kWh to quote. Lubbock Power & Light, owned by the City of Lubbock, now handles only delivery: the poles, wires, meters and outage repairs. The electricity itself is sold by a retail electric provider, whose bill combines its own energy charge with LP&L's delivery charges.

EIA's annual survey of utilities (form EIA-861) reports what LP&L billed for that delivery service. Its residential delivery revenue averaged 6.31¢ per kWh in 2025: everything it billed homes for delivery, including fixed monthly charges, divided by the kWh they used. That is an average, not a line in LP&L's tariff, and it covers only part of a bill. Businesses averaged 5.01¢ per kWh across 14,743¹ commercial accounts.

The 2025 average was +4.0% above the 6.07¢ per kWh² of 2024. Read that change with care: 2024 was the year LP&L's customers moved to retail providers, so its delivery-only figures cover a transition year rather than a full year of the new arrangement. Among the other Texas delivery utilities, the same 2024 to 2025 change ranged from +2.8% at AEP Texas Central to +12.0%¹ at TNMP.

High per kWh, low per month

LP&L's delivery revenue per kWh was the 2nd highest of the 6 Texas delivery utilities in 2025, behind only TNMP's 7.09¢ per kWh. Per home, the order flips. A Lubbock home on LP&L's wires used an average of 874 kWh a month, less than any other delivery utility's customers: 1,106 kWh on Oncor's wires and 1,124 kWh on CenterPoint Energy's. Delivery therefore came to about $55.17 a month per home, against $62.35 for Oncor and $81.64¹ for TNMP.

The two readings fit together. Part of any delivery bill is a fixed monthly charge, and when homes use fewer kWh that charge is spread over fewer of them, which raises the average per kWh even when the monthly amount is lower. The monthly figure is closer to what a household sees for delivery on its bill; the per-kWh charges are what retail providers pass through in their plan prices.

LP&L is also the smallest of the six: 94,738 residential customers in 2025, against 158,488 for AEP Texas North, the next smallest, and 3,545,814¹ for Oncor.

How a city utility joined the competitive market

Lubbock's position is unusual. The city was not on the ERCOT grid, which covers most of Texas, until LP&L moved over in stages; its neighbor Xcel Energy remains in SPP¹. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas describes the steps: the Public Utility Commission of Texas approved LP&L's application in March 2018, most customers moved onto the ERCOT grid over Memorial Day weekend in 2021, the remainder followed in December 2023, and LP&L became the first municipally owned utility in Texas to enter ERCOT's competitive retail market.

Homes then had a window to choose a provider. The Public Utility Commission of Texas set it from January 5 to February 15, 2024, and customers who did not choose were assigned a default provider and could switch later. ERCOT's market notice records the transfer of retail service to competitive providers between March 4 and April 1, 2024. 2025 is therefore the first full year in which EIA's figures show LP&L as a delivery-only utility.

What Lubbock homes paid their retail providers

EIA does not publish an all-in price for Lubbock. What it does report is what each Texas retail electric provider collected from its residential customers over the whole year, delivery included, across all its plans and all the areas it serves. Statewide, those providers averaged 17.23¢ per kWh in 2025; among the 38 with 10,000 or more residential customers, averages ran from 8.03¢ per kWh (Southern Federal Power, LLC) to 20.86¢ per kWh¹ (Young Energy, LLC). These are past averages, not offers, and none of them is specific to Lubbock.

Champion Energy Services10.16¢

US Retailers, LLC15.77¢

Just Energy16.92¢

Value Based Brands LLC17.15¢

Direct Energy Services17.30¢

Gexa Energy, LP17.42¢

Reliant Energy Retail Services18.38¢

Green Mountain Energy Company18.49¢

TXU Energy Retail Co, LLC19.36¢

Ambit Energy Holdings, LLC19.74¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. The 10 largest providers by residential customers (EIA-861 2025, Part D). Each figure is the provider's total residential revenue divided by kWh, delivery included, across all its plans in the year: a past average, not an offer or a plan price.

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Retail provider	¢/kWh (2025 average)	Residential customers
Champion Energy Services	10.16¢	218,102
US Retailers, LLC	15.77¢	416,504
Just Energy	16.92¢	437,966
Value Based Brands LLC	17.15¢	245,378
Direct Energy Services	17.30¢	259,458
Gexa Energy, LP	17.42¢	310,726
Reliant Energy Retail Services	18.38¢	1,545,510
Green Mountain Energy Company	18.49¢	273,660
TXU Energy Retail Co, LLC	19.36¢	1,442,516
Ambit Energy Holdings, LLC	19.74¢	364,649

Plans available at a Lubbock address, with the energy charge, LP&L's delivery charges and the average price at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh on each Electricity Facts Label, are listed on the Public Utility Commission's Power to Choose site. The Texas retail choice guide explains how to read those labels.

Lubbock County: which utility serves which address

EIA's service-territory records place LP&L in Lubbock County⁴ only. The county is shared: Xcel Energy and two electric cooperatives, South Plains Electric Cooperative and Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, also report customers there. Homes served by those three utilities sit on a different grid (SPP, not ERCOT) and are outside the competitive market: they buy from their utility at its bundled price, which for Xcel Energy averaged 13.94¢ per kWh¹ in 2025, supply and delivery together. That figure is not comparable with LP&L's delivery-only average. Living in Lubbock County does not by itself mean a home can choose a provider; the utility's own service map, or the utility named on the current bill, decides by address.

Lubbock Power & Light onlyLubbock Power & Light and other utilitiesOther utilities

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 1 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
Lubbock County	Xcel Energy, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lyntegar Electric Cooperative

Outages and smart meters

LP&L's customers averaged 111 minutes without power in 2025 counting major events, fewer than the Texas average of 225 minutes, and 95 minutes excluding them, with 1.70 interruptions per customer. LP&L reports under the IEEE 1366 standard, as Xcel Energy, CenterPoint Energy and the two AEP Texas utilities do; Xcel Energy's Texas customers averaged 441 minutes³ on the same basis. Outages and meter problems go to LP&L, not to the retail provider.

Lubbock Power & Light (TX)111

AEP Texas North (TX)133

CenterPoint Energy (TX)193

AEP Texas Central (TX)205

Xcel Energy (TX)441

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
CenterPoint Energy (TX)	193
AEP Texas Central (TX)	205
Xcel Energy (TX)	441

Every residential meter LP&L reported in 2025 was an advanced meter (100.0%⁶), which is what lets retail providers bill by interval and offer time-of-use plans. The Texas state page sets LP&L beside the rest of the state's utilities.