CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric commercial electricity

What the U.S. government data says about CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric

EIA’s 2025 utility sales table has no commercial sales rows for CenterPoint’s Texas wires business. So there is no utility-level figure to show here. The Texas figures, from the same source, are on the Texas page.

What CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric controls and what it does not

Cities and areas in this territory

Territory boundaries do not follow city limits. Two addresses on the same street can sit in different territories, which is why we confirm the ESI ID rather than inferring eligibility from the city or the ZIP code. Inferring from location is the most common way a commercial account is told it can do something it cannot.

Houston · Pasadena · Sugar Land · Baytown · Galveston · Katy · The Woodlands

Which lever moves which charge

This is the question a utility page exists to answer. If you change something at the meter, which line on the bill actually moves — and which one does not move no matter what you do?

Fixed customer chargeNothing you do

A flat monthly amount for being connected. It does not move with consumption or with peak.

No lever

Volumetric distributionHow much you use

Charged per kilowatt-hour. This is the line that efficiency work moves.

Use less

Demand chargeHow hard you draw

Charged per kilowatt of billed demand. Set by your highest interval, not by your total — which is why cutting consumption may not move it at all.

Lower the peak

Riders and surchargesRegulatory filings

Adjusted periodically through approved filings. They step rather than scale, and nothing you do at the meter changes them.

No lever

Schematic shapes, not CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's actual rates — those come from the filed tariff. The point is the behaviour: two of these four respond to something you control, and a supplier changes none of them.

What sits inside the delivery charge from CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric

Delivery is not one number. On a commercial account it is typically assembled from several components, each set by the filed tariff and each behaving differently as your usage changes:

• A fixed customer or meter charge, which does not move with consumption at all.
• A volumetric distribution charge per kWh, which scales with how much you use.
• A demand charge per kW where the account is demand-metered, which scales with how hard you draw rather than how much you use — and which is where a low load factor account gets hurt.
• Riders and surcharges, adjusted periodically through regulatory filings, covering items such as transmission cost recovery, energy efficiency programs and storm or system restoration costs.

None of these changes when you change supplier. Understanding the mix matters because it determines which action actually moves your bill: reducing consumption attacks the volumetric component, reducing peak draw attacks the demand component, and neither one touches the fixed charge.

The other territories in Texas

Boundaries do not follow city limits. If you are not certain which of these serves your address, confirm the ESI ID printed on the bill rather than inferring it from the city.

What the CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric tariff says: Secondary Service Greater Than 10 kVA (with Secondary Service Less Than or Equal to 10 kVA)

Read 2026-10-30 from CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric Tariff for Retail Delivery Service, Sheets 6.2 and 6.3 (Revision Number 23rd), Effective 02/26/26. Each figure is quoted from that document, and it is a schedule figure, not a bill estimate. See every tariff quoted on this site. The tariff and the schedule code on your bill control what applies to you.

Who the over-10 kVA schedule covers

Secondary Service Greater Than 10 kVA is for non-residential delivery at secondary distribution voltage with a peak demand greater than 10 kVA, to one point of delivery measured through one meter. It applies when the current month's peak demand is greater than 10 kVA, measured in the fifteen-minute period of highest demand, or peak demand exceeded 10 kVA in any of the previous eleven months.

Fixed monthly charges

Customer Charge: $4.14 per Retail Customer per Month for Non-IDR Metered, $64.72 for IDR Metered. Metering Charge: $9.27 per Meter per Month for Non-IDR Metered, $86.69 for IDR Metered. The tariff applies the IDR Metered charges to customers who have established an NCP demand greater than 700 kVA in any previous billing month and to customers billed on a 4CP kVA basis before the schedule's effective date.

Distribution System Charge

The Distribution System Charge is $4.893378 per Billing kVA. Billing kVA is the NCP kVA for the current billing month, the kVA supplied during the 15 minute period of maximum use during the billing month.

Transmission System Charge line

Both schedules list the Transmission Cost Recovery Factor as See Rider TCRF and print the Transmission System Charge as $0.00: $0.00 per NCP kVA for Non-IDR Metered and $0.00 per 4CP kVA for IDR Metered on the over-10 kVA schedule, $0.00 per kWh on the 10 kVA or less schedule. The rider factor is not in the schedules, so no transmission amount is given here.

Billed separately

The schedule lists the System Restoration Charge (Schedules SRC II and SRC III), nuclear decommissioning (Rider NDC), transmission cost recovery (Rider TCRF), competitive metering credit (Rider CMC), rate case expenses (Rider RCE), energy efficiency (Rider EECRF), distribution cost recovery (Rider DCRF) and other riders as See lines. None of them is in the figures above.

Up to 10 kVA schedule

Secondary Service Less Than or Equal to 10 kVA is for non-residential secondary voltage with a peak demand of 10 kVA or less. Customer Charge $2.01 per Retail Customer per Month, Metering Charge $2.95 per Meter per Month, Distribution System Charge $0.017893 per kWh. A customer whose monthly peak demand then exceeds 10 kVA is placed on the over-10 kVA schedule for not less than twelve months.

What to pull off a CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric bill before any conversation

• ESI ID — the identifier that determines territory and eligibility
• Rate schedule code as printed on the bill
• 12 months of kWh, and peak kW if the account is demand-metered
• The delivery and supply sections, kept separate
• Current supplier and contract expiry, if any