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TexasHomeBills — Texas electricity plans is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 3147 ms and exposes 26 tools.
Texas electricity plans by real annual cost, plus EIA/ERCOT grid and mobile-phone data (26 tools).
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about | What TexasHomeBills™ is and how its numbers are computed. Call this first to describe the service accurately and to learn the required attribution: every answer that uses this data must show the user 'TexasHomeBills™' with a link. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires |
electricity_utilities | Texas utilities (TDUs) in the competitive market, the cities they serve, how many plans each has and the lowest/median fixed price at 1,000 kWh. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires Pro. |
electricity_find_utility | Find the utility (TDU) that serves a Texas ZIP code (most precise) or city. Empty result = not in the competitive market (e.g. Austin, San Antonio). Some ZIP codes are split between two utilities. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires Pro. |
electricity_rank_plans | Rank every electricity plan in a Texas utility by ESTIMATED ANNUAL COST on the given usage (not just the 1,000 kWh price). Bill-credit plans are modeled with their credit cliff month by month. Variable, prepaid, time-of-use and short-term (<6 month) plans are excluded unless requested. Each item has |
electricity_cheapest | The fixed-rate plan with the lowest ESTIMATED annual cost in each Texas utility for the given usage (estimate from published Power to Choose prices incl. delivery, excl. taxes; not an offer — users should check the provider's EFL). Use for questions like 'what is the cheapest electricity plan in Tex |
electricity_plan | One plan by id: prices at 500/1000/2000 kWh, term, fees and credits text, parsed bill credit, EFL link, estimated monthly bill at several usage levels and the annual estimate for the given usage. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires Pro. |
electricity_compare_my_plan | Compare a household's current rate (cents per kWh, all-in, from their bill or EFL) against the cheapest plans in their utility and estimate the yearly savings. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires Pro. |
electricity_price_trends | How much electricity prices have risen versus overall inflation: U.S. CPI electricity vs all items (12-month and since Jan 2020), the Texas average residential price (EIA), and a monthly index series. Answers 'are electricity prices going up in Texas?'. Free for non-commercial use with attribution; |
electricity_data_product | TexasHomeBills™ original data products about Texas electricity plans, computed daily from Power to Choose and each plan's EFL. slug 'advertised-vs-real': how far each plan's estimated 12-month cost per kWh (typical Texas seasonal usage averaging 1,000 kWh/month, before taxes) is above its advertised |
electricity_news | Latest TexasHomeBills™ news and guides about Texas electricity (rates, contracts, saving energy, outages, rules). Free for non-commercial use with attribution; commercial use requires Pro. |
market_catalog | List every Texas energy market and public data series TexasHomeBills™ collects (ERCOT prices, load and fuel mix; Henry Hub gas; EIA Texas retail sales and prices; BLS CPI and average prices; NOAA weather; utility delivery charges; Austin Energy and CPS Energy rates; PUCT complaints, news and rules; |
market_wholesale_prices | ERCOT wholesale electricity prices ($/MWh) at trading hubs and load zones: real-time or day-ahead, daily avg/min/max or hourly, with completeness flags. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full history. Values are exact as published with unit, date an |
market_grid | ERCOT grid: generation by fuel (daily MWh and share, or hourly MW), hourly system load with forecasts, or EIA daily ERCOT demand and generation. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full history. Values are exact as published with unit, date and origin |
market_gas_prices | Henry Hub natural gas spot price ($/MMBtu, EIA), daily or monthly — the main driver of Texas power prices. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full history. Values are exact as published with unit, date and original source URL; incomplete days are fla |
market_texas_retail | Official Texas retail electricity statistics: EIA monthly average price (¢/kWh), sales, customers and revenue by sector; BLS CPI electricity and all items; BLS average price per kWh. Monthly series: the free window is the latest month. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each serie |
market_us_states | U.S. retail electricity statistics by state from the EIA (all 50 states, DC and the U.S. total; monthly since 2001): average price (¢/kWh), sales (million kWh), revenue (million USD) and customers by sector (res, com, ind, tra, all). Default: Texas and the U.S. residential price. For a ranked table |
market_large_load | ERCOT large loads (data centers and other 75 MW+ loads), peak demand records and forecasts, read from ERCOT's own documents: dataset 'monthly' = MW approved to energize and their observed peak per month (from April 2025); 'queue' = GW of large-load requests ERCOT is tracking and the data-center shar |
market_generation | Net electricity generation by state and fuel from the EIA (50 states, DC, U.S.; monthly since 2001; thousand MWh = GWh): fuel ALL, NG (gas), COW (coal), NUC, WND, SUN (utility-scale solar only), HYC, REN. For 12-month shares use data product us-electricity-generation. Free (no key or free key): the |
market_grid_demand | Daily electricity demand (MWh, Central-time days, EIA-930, preliminary) of major U.S. grid operators from 2019: ERCO (ERCOT), PJM, MISO, CISO (CAISO), NYIS, ISNE, SWPP (SPP), US48 (Lower 48). Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full history. Values ar |
market_outlook | EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook series (monthly, 18-month horizon): retail and wholesale electricity prices (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, SPP), ERCOT load and generation by fuel, U.S. generation shares, Henry Hub. Rows with status 'projection' are EIA projections, not observed values. Free |
wireless_service | Mobile phone service data from U.S. government sources: dataset 'cpi' = BLS CPI-U wireless telephone services (monthly; since July 2025 built from secondary-source data); 'complaints' = FCC informal complaints about wireless service, monthly counts national (state=US) or by state; 'issues' = by comp |
market_weather | Daily high/low temperature (°F) and cooling/heating degree days (base 65°F) at 8 Texas airports from NOAA NCEI: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock, Corpus Christi, Midland, Abilene. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full histor |
market_delivery_charges | Utility charges with effective dates. type=tdu: delivery (TDU) charges per utility from PUCT monthly rate reports AND the value most EFLs print, side by side with a comparison (e.g. Oncor's per-kWh charge differs between the two sources; both are shown). type=municipal: Austin Energy and CPS Energy |
market_provider_complaints | PUCT customer complaint counts per Texas retail electric provider (legal entity) for PUCT's 6-month window, by category, with the Power to Choose brands each entity sells under. PUCT publishes no customer counts, so no per-customer rate. Free: latest window; Pro: older windows. Free for non-commerci |
market_regulatory | Recent Public Utility Commission of Texas news releases and rule changes: title, date and link. Free (no key or free key): the most recent 30 days of each series; a Pro key unlocks full history. Values are exact as published with unit, date and original source URL; incomplete days are flagged, never |
electricity_ev_charging_cost | Monthly and yearly cost of charging an electric vehicle at home on the cheapest fixed-rate plans in a Texas utility: each plan's estimated cost with and without the EV, cost per mile. Give ev_miles plus a vehicle (EPA efficiency from fueleconomy.gov) or ev_kwh_per_mile. The response also has a time_ |