AEP Texas North: West Texas Delivery Charges & Electricity Plans

AEP Texas North is the delivery utility for a broad, sparsely populated stretch of West Texas centered on the Abilene metro, San Angelo, and the surrounding Big Country and Concho Valley communities. It is one of two rate divisions of AEP Texas — the other, AEP Texas Central, serves South Texas hundreds of miles away — and its territory sits entirely inside ERCOT's deregulated market, so households here choose their retail electricity provider while AEP Texas North delivers the power.

Current AEP Texas North Residential Delivery Charges

Delivery has a fixed monthly charge and a per-kWh charge. These are the residential rates the Public Utility Commission of Texas lists for AEP Texas North; every retail provider passes the same charges through.

Source: Public Utility Commission of Texas, transmission and distribution rates, residential rates in effect as of October 1, 2026. TrueBill adds these charges once to AEP Texas North-area plan estimates; a plan whose estimate still uses an earlier delivery rate says so on its card. The EFL for any plan you enroll in remains the authoritative source for that plan.

You can't avoid AEP Texas North's regulated delivery charges — every provider passes them through identically — but the energy-charge side of your bill is fully competitive. Since delivery is fixed, the way to lower a AEP Texas North-area bill is to rank plans by estimated total cost at your usage.

Recent AEP Texas North Delivery Charge Updates

As of October 1, 2026, the Public Utility Commission of Texas lists AEP Texas North's residential delivery charges at $3.24 per month plus 5.6¢ per kWh. Those are the figures in the table above and in plan estimates on this site, except where a plan's estimate says it still uses an earlier delivery rate.

AEP Texas files periodic Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF) and Transmission Cost Recovery Factor (TCRF) adjustments with the PUCT, covering both the North and Central divisions; the divisions' delivery rates are set separately. West Texas transmission investment, including wind-interconnection projects, appears in these filings. Current tariff rates are published at aeptexas.com.

AEP Texas North Territory Electricity Rates — October 2026

Weekly standard-priced market index — AEP Texas North territory, snapshot from the week of October 19, 2026. Unlike the live inventory above, rate figures here exclude free-period and time-of-use plans.

In the week of October 19, 2026, 134 standard-priced plans from 32 providers were on the market in AEP Texas North territory. At 1,000 kWh, the cheapest works out to 6.2¢/kWh all-in (about $62 for the month), and the territory average is 12.4¢/kWh — down 0.7¢ vs the week of September 21, 2026. All figures include AEP Texas North delivery charges.

Standard-priced plans in the AEP Texas North service territory tracked in the TrueBill database, weekly snapshot from October 19, 2026. Rate = estimated all-in monthly bill (energy + AEP Texas North delivery charges) divided by usage — the same average-price definition the Electricity Facts Label uses. Time-of-use and free-period plans are excluded from rate figures. Plan pricing changes often — confirm current terms with the provider.

See how Texas electricity rates have trended · Monthly Texas market reports

AEP Texas North maintains the transmission and distribution infrastructure across its West Texas service territory — a region where long line distances between small communities define the engineering challenge, and where some of the state's densest wind-generation corridors around Sweetwater and Abilene tie into the grid it operates. It does not sell electricity plans; licensed retail providers compete for customers on its wires.

AEP Texas North Service Territory

AEP Texas North's service area is anchored by the Abilene metro (Taylor County) and San Angelo (Tom Green County), extending across the surrounding Big Country and Concho Valley counties — including Nolan, Runnels, Coleman, and McCulloch — and north toward Vernon. The territory is geographically large, spanning hundreds of miles, but sparsely populated outside its two anchor metros. Note that Midland and Odessa proper are largely served by Oncor's West Texas footprint rather than AEP Texas North, though both areas are deregulated — your ZIP determines whose delivery charges appear on your bill. The AEP Texas North territory is entirely within ERCOT's deregulated zone, meaning customers can shop retail electricity providers.

AEP Texas North Grid Infrastructure

AEP Texas North maintains transmission and distribution infrastructure across a region larger than many US states, where the defining engineering problem is distance — long radial lines connecting small towns across open rangeland. The territory also sits in one of the country's most concentrated wind-generation corridors: the Sweetwater and Abilene areas host major wind farms whose interconnection has driven transmission investment across the region. AEP Texas North shares corporate ownership and grid management with AEP Texas Central (both divisions of AEP Texas Inc., an American Electric Power subsidiary), with joint coordination on PUCT regulatory matters, outage response, and capital planning.

Reporting Outages in the AEP Texas North Area

Cities and Areas Served by AEP Texas North

The following communities receive electricity delivery from AEP Texas North (a division of AEP Texas Inc.):

• Abilene electricity plans
• San Angelo
• Sweetwater
• Brownwood
• Vernon
• Lubbock area (parts)
• Permian Basin (parts)

City Guides in the AEP Texas North Area

Each city guide covers typical usage, plan structures to watch for, and current plans for that area.

Frequently Asked Questions About AEP Texas North