Compare Electricity Rates in Fort Worth, TX
Shop electricity rates in Fort Worth starting at [Lowest Rate Short Code] per kWh.
Fort Worth sits in the deregulated Texas market, so homes here choose their own retail electricity provider while Oncor Electric Delivery keeps the wires, the meter and the outage response no matter who you buy from. Some addresses on the city's western and northern edges are served by an electric cooperative instead, and co-op members do not shop the competitive market. Enter your full address, not just a ZIP code, to see which applies to you. This page compares the plans available today, shows what a typical Fort Worth home actually pays, and explains which plan type fits which household.
Best-Value Electricity Plans and Rates in Fort Worth
Power Wizard has rates in Fort Worth ranging from [Lowest Rate Short Code] to [Highest Rate Short Code] per kWh. Our electricity experts pick one plan for each of the three ways Fort Worth homes actually use power.
Renders as — snapshot, September 14 2026
Best overall in Fort Worth
Fixed rate, 9 months, no usage threshold to hit.
View planBest for high usage
Bill-credit plan. This rate applies only in months your usage clears the threshold.
View planBest for low usage
No minimum-usage fee, suited to apartments and smaller homes.
View plan[VERIFY — cards 2 and 3 need 500 kWh and 2,000 kWh effective rates, which the marketplace feed does not currently expose. Rates shown are illustrative only. Either relabel both cards to what 1,000 kWh data supports, or record the two labels as working assumptions.]
This row fixes the sharpest defect on the live page. Read on September 14, card 1 was Come & Take It 12 at 13.3¢, card 2 was SimpleSaver 11 at 6.5¢ and card 3 was Gexa Eco Saver Plus 12 at 6.7¢. The most expensive plan sat first. Worse, the two cheap cards are bill-credit plans and the expensive one is a plain fixed rate, with nothing on the page saying so — which makes the honest plan look like a rip-off. The labels above fix that by construction. Card 1 is also corrected: the live fixed-rate table starts at 13.1¢, below the 13.3¢ card.
Fort Worth Electricity Rate Comparison ([Month/Year])
Rates change often and vary by provider, plan, usage and ZIP code. Some plans carry usage tiers, base fees or bill credits that change what you actually pay, so the advertised rate is only part of the picture. The Electricity Facts Label is where each plan's full cost structure is set out, and the figures below are based on average usage patterns rather than your own.
Renders as — snapshot, September 14 2026
| Provider | Plan | Term | Rate / kWh | Est. energy cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APG&E | SimpleSaver 11 | 11 mo | 6.5¢ | $65.00 |
| Companion Energy | Companion Savings + Benefits 12 | 12 mo | 6.7¢ | $67.00 |
| Gexa Energy | Gexa Eco Saver Plus 12 | 12 mo | 6.7¢ | $67.00 |
| 4Change Energy | Maxx Saver Value 12 | 12 mo | 6.7¢ | $67.00 |
| Rhythm Energy | Rhythm Max Saver 12 | 12 mo | 6.8¢ | $68.40 |
| Energy Texas | The Lone Saver Plus 12 | 12 mo | 6.8¢ | $68.40 |
| Express Energy | Flash Value 12 | 12 mo | 6.9¢ | $69.00 |
Gexa Energy and Frontier Utilities are both NextEra-owned, and only one appears on a city page: Gexa Energy is the one that appears. The live Fort Worth page carries both — in the provider table and in four separate plan tables. The roster logic enforces the rule rather than leaving it to writer discretion.
The rate above covers the electricity itself. Oncor charges separately to deliver it: [Base Charge Short Code] a month plus [Energy Charge Short Code] per kWh, which every Fort Worth home pays on any plan. At 1,000 kWh that adds about $64 a month.
Why this sentence is required, in this page's own numbers. The bill column is energy-only. It shows $65.00 for the 6.5¢ plan. Oncor's delivery charges, which the page itself publishes further down, are $4.06 a month plus $0.0603 per kWh — $64.36 at 1,000 kWh, almost exactly the size of the energy charge — so the real bill is about $129. Meanwhile the page's own average block puts a 1,000 kWh Fort Worth bill at $142.01 and states in its chart footnote that those averages “include utility pass-through fees.” The page publishes two different cost bases, labels one of them, and never reconciles them.
Fort Worth Electricity Market Update, [Month/Year]
The move tracks late-summer demand on the ERCOT grid, where Fort Worth's cooling load peaks through August before falling away in October. Oncor territory is also the most competitively served utility area in the state, which is why the Fort Worth marketplace usually carries more plans than the Valley or West Texas pages. What to do this month. If your contract ends before December, lock a fixed rate now rather than waiting. If it runs past February, wait for the shoulder season in October and November, when demand falls and rates typically follow.
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Key Takeaways About Electricity Rates in Fort Worth
- As of [Month/Year], the lowest Fort Worth rates on our marketplace start at [Lowest Rate Short Code] on the energy portion.
- A typical Fort Worth home pays $000 a month, at an average all-in rate of [Average Short Code Number].
- The cheapest rates on this page are bill-credit plans, which only reach that rate if your usage clears a monthly threshold. Compare them against the cheapest plan with no threshold before choosing.
- Oncor delivers power to every home in Fort Worth regardless of which provider you choose, and its delivery charges are the same on every plan.
- A small number of addresses on the city's western and northern edges are served by an electric cooperative rather than Oncor, and co-op members do not shop the deregulated market. Enter your full address to confirm which applies to you.
- Shopping in a lower-demand season, like spring or fall, usually lands a better rate.
The live block has three bullets, one of which is a tautology and one of which says “Your actual usage significantly affects your monthly bill” — phrasing the brand's usage rules set aside.
What Should You Pay for Electricity in Fort Worth?
A typical Fort Worth home uses about 0000 kWh a month and pays around $000 at today's average all-in rate of [Average Short Code Number] per kWh. Rates here start at [Lowest Rate Short Code], so anything in the lower half of that range is a good rate in Fort Worth right now.
That is 0% against the Texas average of $0000 a year, and 0% against the national average of $000.
Two numbers make up any Fort Worth bill, and only one of them is on the plan you choose. The energy rate is what the retail provider sells you. Oncor's base charge and per-kWh delivery fee are added on top, are identical across every provider here, and at the marketplace's cheapest rates they are roughly the same size as the energy charge itself.
The second thing to check is the threshold. The lowest advertised rates on this page are bill-credit rates, and the effective rate depends on clearing a monthly usage target. Compare your current bill against the all-in figure above rather than against a headline rate.
Why this section exists. A live People Also Ask question on the primary keyword asks “What is a good electric rate per kWh?” — asked generically because no page answers it locally. Separately, eleven of this page's own Search Console queries sit between positions 16 and 20 and every one is a superlative framing: cheapest electric company fort worth at 16.1, best electric company for apartments in fort worth at 16.4, best electric company fort worth at 18.1, best electricity rates in fort worth at 19.6, and seven more. Eleven queries, one band, one question, and the page does not answer it.
[The home-size sub-table is deliberately not used. Only the middle row is sourceable today, and the apartment row's placeholder returns a Texas-wide figure. A statewide number inside a Fort Worth table labels state data as local, which is exactly the failure the caveat exists to prevent. The opening sentence alone already answers the question.]
What is Fort Worth's Average Electricity Rate?
Providers display rates at three standard usage levels so plans can be compared consistently.
Renders as — snapshot, September 14 2026
| Monthly usage | Average Marketplace Rate |
|---|---|
| 500 kWh | 17.6¢ |
| 1,000 kWh | 14.2¢ |
| 2,000 kWh | 14.9¢ |
The 2,000 kWh figure sitting above the 1,000 kWh figure is not an error. Bill-credit plans cluster their thresholds around 1,000 kWh, which pulls that tier down relative to the others.
Always “Average Marketplace Rate”, never “Average Rate”: Power Wizard averages the plans in its own marketplace rather than the entire Texas market. The live page says “Fort Worth's electricity rates now average roughly 14.2¢” with the figure typed rather than driven.
And reconcile the footnote with the table above it. The live chart footnote says these averages “include utility pass-through fees.” The rate table's bill column does not. Whichever basis each figure uses, the page has to say so.
Types of Electricity Plans You'll See in Fort Worth
No two homes in Fort Worth use electricity in the same way. A historic home in Fairmount does not have the same energy habits as a newer build out in Walsh Ranch. Understanding the plan types helps you find one that fits your lifestyle rather than someone else's.
Fixed-Rate Plans
A fixed-rate plan locks your price per kWh for the whole contract term, so a hot Fort Worth summer changes how much you use but not what you pay per unit. Unlike a bill-credit plan, there is no monthly usage target to hit.
Best for: most households, renters, and anyone who wants a predictable rate without tracking usage.
Not a good fit if: you consistently use 2,000 kWh or more, where a bill-credit plan usually delivers a lower effective rate.
Time-of-Use Plans
These plans give you free electricity during a set window, and the plan name tells you which one: nights, weekends, or three-day weekends. The free hours are paid for by a higher rate the rest of the time, so the plan only works if you can move real usage into the window.
Best for: households that can run laundry, the dishwasher and EV charging inside the free window.
Not a good fit if: someone is home using power through the day, where the higher daytime rate outweighs the free hours.
Bill and Usage Credit Plans
These plans apply a credit to your bill in any month your usage clears the plan's threshold, which the Electricity Facts Label states. Clear it and the effective rate is among the lowest available anywhere on this page. Miss it and you pay the full rate with no credit at all.
Best for: homes that cleared the threshold in at least 10 of the last 12 months.
Not a good fit if: your usage drops in the mild months, since one missed month can erase several months of savings.
No-Deposit and Prepaid Plans
You pay into a balance before you use the electricity, with no deposit and no credit check. Service continues as long as that balance holds.
Best for: renters, movers and anyone who would rather not put down a deposit or have their credit checked to get connected.
Not a good fit if: you want to set the bill up and forget it, since a balance that runs out can disconnect service with little notice.
Renewable and Green Energy Plans
Every plan below is matched with 100% renewable generation. Your home draws the same electricity from the same grid either way; the provider buys renewable credits to match what you use.
Best for: shoppers who want their usage matched with renewable generation and still want a locked rate.
Not a good fit if: you expect renewable matching to lower your bill, which it does not.
Solar Buyback Plans
If you have rooftop solar, these plans credit you for the electricity you export back to the grid. The pairing that determines your annual bill is the import rate set against the export credit, and the Electricity Facts Label states both.
Best for: homeowners whose system regularly produces more than the home consumes.
Not a good fit if: you lease your panels, or your system was sized to offset only part of your usage.
Variable-Rate Plans
A variable-rate plan has no locked rate. Your price per kWh moves with the wholesale market every month, so it can sit below a fixed rate through mild weather and climb sharply through a hot Fort Worth summer. We almost never recommend one.
Best for: a short bridge between contracts, for shoppers who can absorb a high bill if the market moves against them.
Not a good fit if: you need a predictable bill, or you would be exposed through a summer, when demand and prices peak together.
Seven plan types, each with the plan-type name as a real h3 so it is anchorable and extractable. The live page already has all seven types and a table under six of them — the most complete plan-types section in the city page set. What changes is the format: the types are currently inline paragraphs introduced by a dash, not headings, and they carry no Best for / Not a good fit if pair. No provider or plan is named in any blurb — the tables name them.
Fort Worth's Best Electricity Companies Ranked
Fort Worth's deregulated electricity market lets households here pick from a field of competing retail providers, or light companies as plenty of Texans call them. These five are ordered by who they suit, not by score.
| Electricity company | Good fit for | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| APG&E | Higher-usage homes comfortable hitting a monthly usage target in exchange for the lowest effective rate on the Fort Worth marketplace | 4.8 |
| Rhythm Energy | Shoppers who want a straightforward fixed rate with no usage threshold, plus renewable matching and self-service usage tools | 4.8 |
| Gexa Energy | Shoppers who want 100% renewable matching at the cheapest green rate available here | 5.0 |
| 4Change Energy | Value shoppers comfortable with a bill-credit structure, with a referral and charitable-giving program attached | 4.9 |
| BKV Energy | Shoppers who want simple fixed pricing with no bill-credit mechanics to track | 4.8 |
Also serving Fort Worth: Atlantex Power, Companion Energy, Energy Texas, Express Energy, Payless Power and Veteran Energy. Compare all Texas providers.
Enter your full address to compare the plans actually available where you live.
Ratings are based on Power Wizard's internal scoring methodology and customer experience benchmarks. Company features and availability vary within Fort Worth.
[The live footnote reads only “Company features may vary by location. Enter your ZIP code to see available plans in your area.” It names no city at all and carries no link to the ratings methodology. Both are required.]
Five defects this rebuild fixes. The live table carries fifteen rows against a cap of five. It runs three rating formats at once: one decimal for most providers, two decimals for TXU Energy (4.92) and TriEagle Energy (4.75), and none for Gexa Energy (“5”). Seven of the fifteen providers do not appear in any plan table on the page — Chariot, CleanSky, Atlantex, Octopus, TriEagle, TXU and Payless. Gexa Energy and Frontier Utilities both appear, breaching the sibling-brand rule. And the “Highlights” column is company description rather than a recommendation.
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How to Switch Electricity Providers in Fort Worth
- Enter your full address. A Tarrant County ZIP can span both Oncor and cooperative territory, so a ZIP-only check cannot establish whether you can shop.
- Filter by term, provider, renewable content and plan type.
- Read the Electricity Facts Label for the plan you are considering.
- Sign up online or by phone. Your new provider handles the switch, usually with no interruption to service.
You can shop around and switch providers at the end of your contract. Early termination fees may apply if you leave early. ETFs do not apply if you are moving, even if your contract has not been fulfilled, and they do not apply to anyone in the last two weeks of their electricity contract.
Two live changes here. The page has a switching section and a separate three-step “how to find a plan” section that duplicates it; they merge. And the live Pro Tip promises readers can “save big”, which is closer to a savings guarantee than the rate-claim rules allow. Neither ETF exception appears anywhere on the live page.
Four bullets, down from eight. Three of the live eight are now covered by the plan-type blurbs above, closer to the inventory they describe, and two more were near-duplicates of each other.
What to Weigh Before You Choose a Plan in Fort Worth
- Know your actual usage. The right plan for your Fort Worth home starts with knowing how much power you use. Your past bills carry the figure, and it matters more than the rate you sign.
- Contracts and cancellation fees. Many plans carry a term with an early termination fee. Decide whether you are buying flexibility or rate stability before you commit, and read the term length on the EFL.
- Customer service. A low rate is worth less if support is poor, from billing questions to plan changes. Power Wizard publishes customer service scores alongside each provider so you can see what to expect.
- The fine print. Base fees and minimum-usage charges can raise a bill well above what the advertised rate suggests. Review the Electricity Facts Label before enrolling.
Fort Worth Electricity Provider vs. Utility
Your provider sells you the plan. Your utility delivers the power, and it is assigned by address rather than chosen. In Fort Worth that utility is Oncor Electric Delivery, and switching retail providers does not change it. A small number of addresses on the city's western and northern edges are served by an electric cooperative instead, and those addresses sit outside the deregulated market.
- Monthly base charge: [Base Charge Short Code]
- Per-kWh delivery fee: [Energy Charge Short Code]
[The live page hard-codes these charges at $4.06 and $0.0603. The values are currently correct; the hard-coding is the defect, because they are revised several times a year. These two placeholders also take a different utility identifier from every other placeholder on this page, and a page carrying the wrong one drops its delivery charges silently while reading correctly everywhere else. Check they render before publishing.]
Reporting a Power Outage in Fort Worth
Your retail electricity provider cannot restore your service. Outages are Oncor's responsibility, whoever you buy your plan from.
Oncor crews cover the wider North Texas service area, so restoration times during a widespread storm reflect conditions across the region rather than Fort Worth alone.
All three details are already correct on the live page and carry across unchanged. What changes is emphasis: Oncor is the only Texas utility publishing a text-to-report short code, and the live version buries it as the second item in a three-line list inside the utility section. No live outage count in the copy — it is wrong within the hour and it is utility-level data rather than city-level.
Electricity Plans for Fort Worth Businesses
Businesses from downtown and the Sundance Square area to the Camp Bowie corridor and the Stockyards buy electricity on the same deregulated market as households, with plans built for commercial load profiles: fixed-rate, market-indexed and renewable options, plus dedicated account management and consolidated billing across sites. Contract terms, renewable add-ons and rate structures can be matched to how and when a business actually draws power. Compare business electricity plans.
The live page has no business section at all. Fort Worth is the largest commercial market in this batch and the keyword set carries commercial intent the page currently sends nowhere.
Fort Worth Electricity FAQs
Who has the cheapest electricity rates in Fort Worth?
The cheapest plan currently available is [Lowest Plan Short Code], with rates across the marketplace running from [Lowest Rate Short Code] to [Highest Rate Short Code] per kWh. The cheapest plans in Fort Worth are bill-credit plans, which only beat a fixed rate if your usage clears the plan's threshold every month.
What is a good electricity rate in Fort Worth right now?
Anything in the lower half of the range between [Lowest Rate Short Code] and the Fort Worth average all-in rate of [Average Short Code Number] is a good rate right now. Every plan also carries Oncor delivery charges on top, so a very low energy rate is a smaller saving than it first looks.
Which light companies serve Fort Worth?
Oncor Electric Delivery delivers power to Fort Worth addresses and cannot be changed. Retail providers, what plenty of Texans call light companies, compete to sell the electricity itself, and the ranked table above lists the ones available here. A small number of addresses on the city's edges are served by an electric cooperative instead, whose members are not part of the deregulated market. Enter your full address to confirm which applies to you.
Why is my Fort Worth electricity bill higher than the rate I signed up for?
The most common reason is a bill-credit plan. The advertised rate only applies in months when your usage clears the plan's target; miss it and you pay the full rate. The second is delivery: Oncor's base charge and per-kWh fee are added on top of any plan's energy rate and no plan can reduce them. Check your current rate against the benchmark above to see which applies.
What is the average electricity bill in Fort Worth?
A typical Fort Worth home pays around $000 a month, roughly $0000 a year. That figure is all-in, covering both the plan rate and Oncor's delivery charges. A bill quoted from the rate table alone is energy-only and understates the total.
Can I get electricity in Fort Worth with bad credit or no deposit?
Yes. Prepaid and no-deposit plans connect service with no credit check and no deposit. The trade-off is honest: the rate is usually higher than a comparable fixed plan, and service can be disconnected with little notice if the balance runs out.
Can I switch electricity providers if I'm under contract?
Yes. Switching before your contract ends may incur an early termination fee, so check your plan's Electricity Facts Label. ETFs do not apply if you are moving, even if your contract has not been fulfilled, and they do not apply in the last two weeks of your contract.
What should I look for in the Electricity Facts Label before choosing a plan?
Pay closest attention to the average price per kWh at different usage levels, the contract length, any monthly base fee, the early termination fee, and — on a bill-credit plan — the usage threshold that triggers the credit. Those details are what separate the advertised rate from the bill you actually get.
How does Fort Worth's weather impact my energy bill?
Fort Worth sits in humid subtropical North Texas, where cooling load peaks through August and falls away sharply in October. That cooling load is the dominant driver of a summer bill here. Winters are mild on average but carry a real hard-freeze and ice-storm risk, which is what makes an unhedged variable rate a poor idea through the winter.
None of the seven live FAQs matches a live People Also Ask question. Google is surfacing “Who has the cheapest electricity rates in Fort Worth?” and “What is a good electric rate per kWh?”; the page asks itself “What affects energy rates in Fort Worth?”. Two statewide PAA questions are deliberately left unanswered — they belong to the Texas hub page.
Electricity Rates in Cities Near Fort Worth
This is the largest factual correction on the page. The live list carries 55 links against a cap of 20, and it is the same Dallas–Fort Worth boilerplate list that appears on the Allen page, starting with Allen. It reaches Midland, Odessa and Big Spring in West Texas, Nacogdoches and Lufkin in deep East Texas, and Harker Heights, Belton, Temple and Copperas Cove near Killeen. And it omits Arlington, which borders Fort Worth, has a live page, and is the city whose ZIP this page currently runs on. The seventeen links above are ordered by proximity and each was confirmed to resolve on September 14, 2026. Benbrook, Azle, White Settlement, Crowley, Weatherford, Colleyville and Watauga all return 404 and are correctly absent — Benbrook is the one to watch, since an outline exists and this page already draws 87 impressions for it.