# TexasHomeBills — Texas electricity plans

- Registry name: `com.texashomebills/texas-electricity` · version 1.1.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Datasets & public data, Search & data, Government & law, Payments & accounting, Finance & markets
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Not declared (tools carry no read/destructive hints)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=com.texashomebills%2Ftexas-electricity
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.texashomebills--texas-electricity.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Texas electricity plans by real annual cost, plus EIA/ERCOT grid and mobile-phone data \(26 tools\).

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://texashomebills.com/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `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\_

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