Residential Service
When does peak hit on Entergy Texas Inc.’s Residential Service? The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak November–April.
- off-peak12.83¢
Weekends are off-peak all day — the cheapest time to run anything you can schedule.
What does Residential Service cost a year?
| Household | Uses | A month | Per year | Works out to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment One or two people, no central air, no electric heat | 4,866 kWh | $66 | $792 | 16.3¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $115 | $1,381 | 14.6¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $154 | $1,849 | 14.1¢ / kWh |
Estimates, not quotes. We run three made-up but realistic households through this tariff hour by hour for a full year — including the way air conditioning loads the afternoon and an EV loads the small hours. Your own bill depends on when you actually use electricity, which is exactly the thing a per-kWh number hides.
What you actually pay
| Period | Rate | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| off-peak | 12.83¢ | midnight–midnight, May–October |
| off-peak | 12.83¢ up to 1000 kWh10.53¢ | midnight–midnight, November–April |
Plus a fixed charge of $14 per month.
Should you be on Residential Service?
The hour of day does not change what you pay here — the month does. Running the same house through the full year, July costs about $155 and February about $91. That $64 swing is part rate and part weather, and it is the reason a budget built on your spring bill will break in July.
Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $168 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 21% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 9%. Fixed charges are invisible in a cents-per-kWh comparison and they punish small users hardest — if you use very little electricity, the headline rate is the least important number on this page.
How it compares to Entergy Texas’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 2nd cheapest of 2. The cheapest option, Residential Service - Time Of Day, would run about $55 a year less.
Other Entergy Texas plans
Who can be on Entergy Texas’s Residential Service?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Entergy Texas filed. This is what that document says:
This rate is applicable under the regular terms and conditions of the Company for single family residences or individual apartments or appurtenant domestic purposes. This rate is not applicable to service for common facilities at apartments and other multi-dwelling units. Service will be single-phase except that three-phase service may be rendered hereunder, at Company's option, where such service is available. Where a Customer has more than one meter, each meter shall be billed separately. The Customer shall not resell any energy purchased under this rate schedule or supply energy to another occupied dwelling. Standby, maintenance, or supplemental service is not applicable hereunder except in connection with a contract for service pursuant to the Company�s tariff for Interconnection and Parallel Operation of Distributed Generation (IPODG).
Shortened — the clause runs longer in the filing. Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- Tiered billing for electricity: why the last kWh costs more
A cheap allowance, then a cliff. Where the cliff sits is the whole game.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- Why is my electric bill so high in summer?
Usually three causes at once, and only one of them is your air conditioner.
- Why is my electric bill so high? Seven causes, in the order to check them
Seven causes, ranked by how often they are the answer. Only two are about using more.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2025-01-02
the date this tariff took effect
- Covers
- delivery + supply
the ZIP-code service map lists this territory as bundled, so the utility sells delivery and supply together
- Enrollment
- open to new customers