Reliant Energy Electric Rates: One Plan, Six Prices

Search for a Reliant rate and you will be handed one number. There are three things that number depends on: whose wires reach your meter, how much you use, and the contract you signed. Change any of them and the price moves. The tool below takes your own.

GreenCalculus sells no electricity plans and earns no commission on enrolments. Nothing on this page is paid for by Reliant or any other retailer.

Check your own rate

Leave the charges blank to see Reliant’s current 12-month plan, or type in the two figures from your own Electricity Facts Label.

Where the money goes

Reliant sells the electricity. It does not carry it. In most of the state’s competitive market that job belongs to one of five regulated wires companies, and Lubbock has its own, so every Reliant label prints a second set of charges that Reliant did not choose.

On the Oncor label dated 4 October 2026, 1,000 kWh comes to $80.30 for Reliant (a $5.00 base charge and 7.5296¢ per kWh) and $72.73 for delivery ($4.06 a month and 6.8673¢ per kWh). Delivery is 48% of the bill before taxes. The Public Utility Commission of Texas publishes those wires charges in a table, last dated November 01, 2026 when we read it.

• Reliant energy
• Reliant base
• Delivery per kWh
• Delivery monthly

That is why a move across Texas can change a Reliant bill by $26 a month at the same usage on a plan with the same name. The gap between AEP Central and TNMP is partly delivery and partly Reliant’s own energy charge, which also differs by area; the table shows how much of each.

Against the rest of the list

Texas runs a public list of plans, Power to Choose, and it carried 920 English-language, non-prepaid offers across these six areas on the day we read it. To compare like with like we kept only fixed-price, 12-month plans with no time-of-use pricing and no bill credits or minimum-usage fees, because the average price on those plans depends on landing near one usage level.

On Oncor’s wires, 32 of the 34 plans left were cheaper at 1,000 kWh than Reliant’s 12-month plan. The middle plan was 13.0¢, which on 1,000 kWh is $23 a month away from Reliant’s price.

Price is the part a list can measure. On the state’s complaint scorecard for April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026, Reliant has 4 of 5 circles, where five circles marks the lowest complaint rate. Reliant’s own website may show plans that are not on the state list, and we have not compared the two.

Why low use costs more

Monthly charges are the same whether you use 300 kWh or 3,000, so they weigh more on a small bill. Reliant’s Oncor 12-month label gives 16.2¢ at 500 kWh and 14.8¢ at 2,000 kWh, from the same contract. An apartment and a four-bedroom house with the same plan do not pay the same per-kWh price.

Lubbock’s line is flatter than the others because its label has no Reliant base charge and a lower monthly delivery charge. The points between the printed usage levels are our arithmetic from the label’s charges, before taxes.

Contract length and the fee to leave

A cheaper offer does not always mean you should move now. Put your remaining months and your fee in here. Your all-in price is the bill before taxes divided by your kWh.

When a contract ends

This part does not come from Reliant. It is Texas rule §25.475 for residential fixed-price contracts, so read your own contract for its exact date.

• Last thirdAt least three written notices of the end date must reach you in the last third of the contract. On a contract of 12 months or more, the first may come up to three months before the end.
• 30 days outThe latest the final notice can be given on any contract longer than four months. It goes to your billing address by mail, unless you chose electronic communications. The envelope or email subject must say “Contract Expiration Notice. See Enclosed.”
• 14 days outNo termination penalty applies from 14 days before the end date in the notice. This is the free window to switch.
• End dateDo nothing and you go on to a default renewal product. It must be month-to-month, and you can cancel it at any time without a fee.
• After thatThe price of that product may change between billing cycles. The final notice has to give you its label, or the label must follow at least 14 days before the end, so compare it with the tool above.

Offers and what homes paid

Federal data puts the average price paid by Reliant’s 1,545,510 homes at 18.38¢ per kWh in 2025 (17.38¢ the year before), or $190.67 a month on 1,038 kWh. That is 3.1¢ away from today’s Oncor offer. The two numbers measure different things.

The federal figure is Reliant’s residential revenue divided by the kWh it sold to homes: every contract in force in that year, signed at any time, in every delivery area and through a Texas summer. The offer is what one new customer would be quoted today at exactly 1,000 kWh. Public data cannot say how much of the difference comes from older contracts, how much from month-to-month customers and how much from usage, so we do not guess. What it does show is that a quoted offer and the average customer’s price can sit cents apart.

Our daily record

Power to Choose lists current offers. We save a copy of the list every morning, so this page can show what changed.

Our daily copy of the state list began on 9 November 2026 and holds 4 days so far. A price line for Reliant and the middle plan appears here at 14 days, and any change to a delivery charge is listed as it happens.

Prices since 2002

The federal survey reports Texas retailers once a year, so unlike a wires utility Reliant has no monthly line. The series starts in 2002.

Renewable share and carbon

The Power On 12 plan on Oncor lists 22% renewable content; the label dated 4 October 2026 gives the statewide average as 37%. Your electricity still comes from the same ERCOT grid as your neighbour’s. At the EPA eGRID average for ERCOT, 1,000 kWh carries about 334 kg of CO₂e. Plan-level renewable claims change who is credited with clean generation, and a location-based carbon figure does not move with them.

Every plan

Every fixed-price Reliant plan without time-of-use pricing on the state list on 12 November 2026. Sort any column. The prices are the three averages printed on each official label, before taxes.

For the state picture see Texas electricity rates, and to rank Reliant against other large suppliers see US utility electricity prices. TXU Energy, the next-largest Texas retailer, has its own page, with each of its plans priced at your usage.

How we worked this out

Offers come from the Power to Choose export, downloaded once a day. Line charges for the 12-month plan in each area, and all five Oncor terms, were read from Reliant’s Electricity Facts Labels. We checked that each label’s charges reproduce its own printed 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh prices, and all ten did to the tenth of a cent. Other plans appear in the table with their printed prices only.

A retailer can replace a label at any time. Prices on this page update with the list each day; if a label changes, the line charges wait for us to read the new one, and the job that builds this page flags it. The comparison counts plans at 1,000 kWh only. All figures exclude taxes. The 2025 average is revenue from homes divided by kWh sold to them, from Form EIA-861.

Frequently asked questions

Download the data

• Reliant Energy, every year (CSV)
• All 40 utilities, latest figures (CSV)
• Citable archive on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24071582): all 40 utilities, with field descriptions
• Dataset, code and history on GitHub

Today’s plans and our daily record: reliant.json.

How to cite this page

@dataset{say2026reliantenergyele,
  author    = {Say, Jeremiah},
  title     = {Reliant Energy electricity rates: monthly residential price since 2002},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {GreenCalculus},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.24071582},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24071582}
}

Version history

• 1.0 (November 2026): launched, with the daily plan record beginning 9 November 2026.