Wichita Falls electric companies: 44 compared and how to find your utility

For nearly all of Wichita Falls, the utility is Oncor. It owns the poles, wires and meters, and its crews fix the lines after a storm. You do not pick Oncor. You do pick the company that buys the power and sends you the bill.

How to tell which utility serves your address

Three wires companies show up in Wichita Falls-area ZIP lists. Each has its own code in the first seven digits of an ESI ID, the long meter number on your bill or lease papers.

No bill yet? Type your street address into Oncor’s ESI ID lookup. Oncor says the lookup also shows whether the address is inside its service area. TNMP gives out ESI IDs by phone at 888-866-7456, on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central. Our guide to finding your electric utility shows the bill method step by step.

Three other owners sit at the edges. Two electric co-ops serve land in Archer, Clay and Jack counties, and the City of Electra runs its own electric department. If one of them sends your bill, you cannot choose a company. The no-choice section below has their numbers.

Every company here sold plans for Oncor’s lines on Oct 16, 2026. Sort by the state’s complaint rating, or type the kWh from your bill to price each company’s simplest 12-month plan for your home.

Missing a company you know?

Some licensed sellers had no plans on the state’s site for Oncor’s lines on Oct 16, 2026. Ambit and 4Change Energy are two. XOOM Energy, Stream, Town Square Energy, Tesla Electric, Shell Energy Solutions and Energywell are others. Each may still sell through its own site. Start with our Ambit Energy review or 4Change Energy review, or browse the full list of Texas electricity companies.

On Oct 16, 2026, the 33 simple 12-month plans on Oncor’s lines ran from 12.0¢ to 16.1¢ per kWh at 1,000 kWh. That is $120 to $161 a month, with $132 in the middle. Oncor’s delivery charge is already inside each price.

From the cheapest simple plan to the priciest, the gap is $41 a month, or $492 a year (our math). Going 100% renewable cost $4 more a month at the lowest simple price. Four 100% renewable plans tie at 12.4¢: Rhythm’s Digital Choice 12, Energy Texas’s No Bull 12, Gexa’s Eco Choice 12 and Octopus’s Octo Simple 12.

Delivery is about 60% of the bill at every level, so a rival company can change only the other 40% or so.

What is the average electric bill in Wichita Falls?

We found no public average for Wichita Falls alone. The closest figure covers all of Texas: the U.S. Energy Information Administration says the average home paid $163.72 a month in 2024 for 1,096 kWh. At Oct 16, 2026 prices, that much power would cost about $131 on the cheapest simple plan (our estimate, before taxes). Our average Texas electric bill guide helps you check your own.

Already on a plan? On Oct 16, 2026, 140 of the 174 listings for Oncor’s lines were open to new customers only. Your current company may not offer you its best price. Our guide to an electricity contract that is ending lists the steps.

Type 76302 into the state’s shopping tool and you get Oncor’s 174 plans. Type 76301 and you get 344, because 170 TNMP plans are added. Only one of those lists can match your meter.

Three ZIPs that hold much of the city, 76310, 76301 and 76305, list TNMP too. Together they cover about 45% of the city’s land (17% + 16% + 12%, our sum). Homes inside the city are not the same as land, so the share of homes may differ.

A ZIP code is a mail route, and its edge does not follow a power line. ZIP 76305 is 69% Clay County, and only 4% of its land lies inside the city. ZIP 76310 is 46% Archer County and 27% Clay County, with 7% of its land inside the city. TNMP’s tariff names Archer and Clay counties. TNMP’s own service map shows Wichita Falls as a grey dot outside its shaded area, and Oncor’s tariff lists Wichita Falls as a city it serves.

ZIP 76301 is the odd one. It is all Wichita County and 99% inside the city, yet the state’s site still lists TNMP plans there. We found no tariff reason, so we cannot explain it. The safe move is to confirm your wires company before you compare.

Every price on the state’s site includes the delivery charge of one wires company. A price from the TNMP or AEP list does not carry over to an Oncor home. One Gexa plan differs by $24 a month between the TNMP and AEP lists.

At 1,000 kWh, TNMP’s delivery costs $12.54 more a month than Oncor’s, about $150 a year. AEP Texas North’s costs $13.74 less, about $165 a year (our math). AEP North charges $3.24 a month plus 5.5751¢ per kWh. Our AEP Texas guide shows $60.14 for the Central area, which has two extra items that North does not. Our TNMP guide explains why TNMP’s charge is the highest of the three.

Three price lists side by side

How to be sure before you compare

• Read the first seven digits of your ESI ID. A start of 1044372 means Oncor, 1040051 means TNMP, and 1020404 means AEP Texas North.
• Look for the utility on the fact label. The labels we read name it. Ranchero’s and Southern Federal’s are headed “ONCOR,” and Gexa’s file names read ONCOR_ELEC, TNMP and AEP_NORTH.
• Ask for the price on your wires. If a plan card says 11.2¢ but your ESI ID starts with 1044372, ask the seller for the Oncor price before you sign.
• Treat a two-list ZIP as a prompt to check. It does not prove your home can use either list.

Companies on TNMP’s lines

Use this table only if your ESI ID starts with 1040051 or your bill says TNMP. The state’s site listed 170 plans from 43 companies for TNMP on Oct 16, 2026, and 33 of them were simple 12-month plans.

On AEP Texas North in Electra? The state’s site listed 164 plans from 42 companies for AEP North. Its 32 simple plans ran from 11.2¢ to 14.8¢, with a middle price of 12.95¢. True Power’s True Value 12 was the cheapest, at 11.2¢. We built no separate table for one ZIP. Check ZIP 76360 on the state’s site, and see the note on Electra in the no-choice section.

Sheppard trains airmen and, through a NATO program, allied pilots. Census numbers for its ZIP, 76311, show a place where most people arrived within the past year and almost every household rents. If that sounds like you, pick a plan that can end when your orders do.

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates (released Jan. 29, 2026), ZIP area 76311. Only 732 households sit behind these shares, so read them as direction, not exact counts. We worked out the two moving shares from table B07003 with Census margin formulas, and each has a margin of about 6 points. Group quarters also include dorms, nursing homes and jails.

The Texas Comptroller’s 2025 profile says Sheppard, set up in 1941, is home to the Air Force’s largest technical training wing and the world’s only internationally manned and managed flying training program. That training is spread over more than 1,100 courses, and the 82nd Training Wing graduates over 60,000 people a year. The base’s average daily student load is 3,883. The Comptroller counts 5,136 direct employees, 1,963 of them active-duty, Guard or reserve, plus 978 military retirees and 4,567 dependents.

The city’s own audit list names Sheppard its biggest employer by far.

The audit puts Sheppard at 10.07% of all city employment. Its older column, 2015–2016, listed 12,581 jobs at 17.60%. That is 5,831 fewer, a 46% drop (our subtraction), and the audit does not say why. The Comptroller’s 5,136 direct employees is a different count from the city’s 6,750, and we show both.

A plan that can end with your stay

Plans do not all last a year. On Oct 16, 2026, Oncor’s list had 10 one-month plans without prepaid billing, 16 three-month plans and 10 six-month plans, after leaving out time-of-use plans and any flagged for a minimum-usage fee or bill credit. Here are five real choices, priced at 1,000 kWh.

Prepaid and no-deposit starts

• Four prepaid plans were listed. Pronto Power listed two, at 16.9¢ and 17.9¢, each for one month with a $0 cancel fee. Payless Power listed two, at 17.2¢ for 6 months and 17.5¢ for 12 months, each with a $49 cancel fee. The state rates both companies 1 of 5 for complaints.
• Payless says prepaid needs no credit check or deposit. A first payment of $75.00 connects service. Its postpaid plans say “No deposit with approved credit.”
• Prepaid costs more. At 1,000 kWh the four run $49 to $59 a month above the cheapest simple plan (our math).
• The state’s no-deposit rule is narrow. It names two groups only: people 65 or older who are current on bills, and certified victims of family violence. A seller may add other groups.
• One seller we checked adds active-duty military. Chariot Energy’s FAQ (read Oct 16, 2026) says active-duty customers may qualify for a deposit waiver with deployment orders or a letter from their command. That is Chariot’s own policy, not a state rule. The state rates Chariot 1 of 5, and we score it 64.

We found no early-exit right for individual service members in the 2023 edition of the state’s utility law or in the two PUCT rules we read. The rule that does help is the move rule below. Our no-deposit and prepaid guide lists more ways to avoid a deposit.

Your first week near the base

1. 1
   Call the housing office first

   Sheppard’s Housing Referral/Government Housing Office is at 310 H Avenue, Building 373, phone 940-676-1840. Military OneSource lists walk-ins weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and appointments from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. We could not confirm how on-base homes are billed for power, so ask.

2. 2
   Living off base? Get the ESI ID

   Look up the street address in Oncor’s ESI ID lookup. Your new company needs that number to start service.

3. 3
   Match the plan to your orders

   A one-month plan has no exit fee, but its price can change. A longer plan can lock a price, but check the cancel fee on its fact label.

4. 4
   Leave with a forwarding address

   Tell your company the move-out date and where to send the last bill. Keep your new lease or orders handy in case it asks for proof.

Arriving within days? Our same-day electricity page explains what is possible, and the four-step setup guide covers the rest. Our apartment electricity guide helps if you rent off base.

Burkburnett, Iowa Park, Holliday and Archer City show Oncor’s list alone. Electra and Henrietta show a second list. Electra also has a city-run electric department.

A ZIP is bigger than its town. A mailing address that names the town does not prove your home sits inside it. When the ZIP and your bill disagree, trust the bill and your ESI ID.

Who is moving in, and who is leaving?

Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates, July 1, 2025 against the April 1, 2020 base. Burkburnett grew 1.1% to 11,057, and Iowa Park grew 0.2% to 6,542. Texas grew 8.8% in the same years.

Wichita Falls and Electra lost people since 2020, while Holliday and Henrietta gained the most. Movers are common all the same. About one in five Wichita Falls residents, 20.6%, lived in a different home a year earlier, against 14.0% in Texas (Census, 2020–2024). Anyone who moves starts service at a new address, and our four-step setup guide lists the steps.

Homes and households next door

Burkburnett has the largest share of veterans in the table, 16.4% against 6.2% for Texas. Iowa Park has the smallest share of renters, 15.1%. If you rent, match a plan’s term to your lease.

Two electric co-ops and the City of Electra run their own lines. A home on a co-op line gets power from the co-op, so the state’s shopping lists do not apply to it.

Which owners name your county?

Wichita County shows up on Oncor’s list alone. Archer and Jack counties each show up on four lists, the most here. In those counties a ZIP cannot tell you the owner, but your bill can.

A two-minute check

• Read the sender on your bill. A co-op or the City of Electra on the bill means you buy from that owner.
• Look for a company from the state’s list. If a retail company sends the bill, your wires company is Oncor, TNMP or AEP Texas North.
• Match the ESI ID. The first seven digits are 1044372, 1040051 or 1020404.
• Call when the name is unclear. The owners’ numbers are in the table above.

Summers are hot, but winter is where this city stands out. January’s normal heating need is bigger than July’s cooling need. Waco runs the other way, with 637.0 cooling degree-days in July against 547.1 heating degree-days in January.

The blue bars win in seven of the twelve months: January through April, then October through December. January alone has 702.7 heating degree-days. July has 610.6 cooling degree-days (our comparison of the monthly normals). Weather is only part of a bill. Your home and your heating fuel decide the rest.

Wichita Falls is the only one of the three where a whole year of heating beats a whole year of cooling: 2,896.6 against 2,445.0, or 18% more (our division). Its heating need runs about 40% above Killeen’s or Waco’s. Its cooling need is 0.866 times that of Dallas–Fort Worth (2,445.0 against 2,824.0).

What heats the homes?

Wichita Falls leans more  on gas than most of Texas. Even so, more than half of its homes heat with electricity, so a cold January can hit the power bill. The median home here was built in 1972, which made it about 52 years old in 2024 (our subtraction). Waco’s median home dates from 1979 and Killeen’s from 1996.

Pick a plan with winter in mind. Price it at 2,000 kWh as well as 1,000, because a bill-credit plan or a free-nights plan can cost more in a cold month than it did in a mild one. If bills run high, read why electric bills run high and see whether you qualify for free weatherization. Weighing a new system? Our heat pump vs. AC page compares costs.

No single company wins for everyone. These four picks rest on the state’s complaint ratings, fact-label prices from Oct 16, 2026 and our own scores. No company paid to be one of these four picks or to get a score.

Pick a few names, price them for your street, then sign up in a few minutes.

Leaving a plan early can cost a fee, so read your old label first. Our guide to switching electricity providers walks through the steps, and Smart Meter Texas shows how to download your real usage.

Call the company that owns your lines about outages. Call the company that sells your power about bills. Changing sellers never changes who fixes the wires.

What did Oncor say in the storm release that names Wichita Falls?

• The wind. Oncor wrote that “intense high winds, which may have produced gusts in excess of 90 mph” hit the area.
• The repairs. In some areas, it said, “complete reconstruction of electric equipment will be required, including replacing utility poles and transformers.”
• The record. Of the 77 dated Oncor storm releases we read, from March 2019 to April 2026, only this one names Wichita Falls.
• The wider picture. Oncor’s rate-case page says its whole territory sees an average of 31 major storm events a year, about one every 12 days (our division).

Need help paying a bill?

• Texas 211: call 1-877-541-7905, or dial 211. The state’s aid lookup for Wichita, Archer, Clay and Wilbarger counties lists it.
• Rolling Plains Management Corporation: the same lookup lists this Crowell agency. Two state pages give it different numbers, 1-800-633-0852 and (940) 684-1571, so confirm with Texas 211 first.
• The state housing agency, TDHCA: call 877-399-8939 on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The agency does not promise that money is available.

We could not open the City of Wichita Falls website, so we cannot say whether the city runs its own aid program. More ways to get help are in our guide to paying an electric bill in Texas.

Each check uses a paper the company must give you, or a public record.

1. 1
   Match the wires company

   The fact label names a utility. Compare it with your ESI ID: 1044372 is Oncor, 1040051 is TNMP and 1020404 is AEP Texas North.

2. 2
   Work out the cancel fee

   Some labels name a flat fee. Others charge $20 for each month left, which can reach $240 on a 12-month plan (our math).

3. 3
   Price a January and a July

   Test 500 and 2,000 kWh. Wichita Falls heats more than it cools, and a credit plan can cost more in a small month.

4. 4
   Check who the plan is for

   Most plans list new customers only. If you already buy from the company, a fresh sign-up may not be open to you.

5. 5
   Ask for a recent label

   Oncor changed its delivery charge on Oct 4, 2026. Ask for a label dated that day or later, and read the rate type.

Our fact label guide explains each line. Unsure about a variable rate? See fixed vs. variable rates.

Short answers drawn from state records, Census and NOAA data, and the companies’ own documents.

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