Electricity providers in Dallas, TX

How it works

What you're actually choosing in Dallas

The most useful thing to understand about picking an electricity provider in Dallas is that your provider doesn't own a single wire. Oncor — headquartered right in Dallas — owns and maintains the poles, wires, and meter, delivers your power, and restores it after an outage, for every home in its territory regardless of whose name is on the bill. Choosing or switching a retail provider never changes your reliability or your delivery charges.

So what does your choice change? The company that sets your energy rate, designs your plan, and bills you. Dallas anchors the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, the biggest pool of deregulated customers in the U.S., which is why more than 100 retail providers compete here — more than almost anywhere. That competition is real, but 'more choice' also means more look-alike plans built to win the comparison screen rather than your actual bill.

The wires

Dallas is served by Oncor Electric Delivery

Whoever you pick as your retail provider, Oncor still owns and maintains the poles, wires, and meter — and restores your power after an outage. Its delivery charges are set by the PUCT and passed through by every provider without markup, so they're identical no matter whose name is on your bill.

The hard part

The plan-type maze

Pull up Power to Choose for a Dallas ZIP and the trap becomes obvious: the cheapest-looking plans are usually bill-credit or tiered plans whose advertised rate only holds inside a specific usage window. Land a little under or over and the effective rate jumps. For a North Texas home running AC through 100°F summers and warm nights, that's a real risk. Base's answer is to remove the guessing entirely — one flat energy rate at any usage, Oncor's delivery passed through without markup, and a flat monthly membership, so the rate you're quoted is the rate you pay.

Researching a specific provider?

Honest reviews of the big Texas providers

We dug into who owns each major provider, how its plans are structured, what it charges, and what customers actually say — balanced, sourced, and updated. Start with whoever you're weighing in Dallas.

Local context

Choosing power in Dallas

Dallas is the 9th-largest city in the U.S. and the third-largest in Texas, the central city of an 8.3-million-person metro that added nearly 178,000 people in a single year. That scale is exactly why the retail market here is so crowded — and why it pays to look past the headline rate to the all-in cost.

Dallas is also ground zero for the event that reshaped how Texans think about their power: Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, when ERCOT came within minutes of a complete statewide blackout. The lesson many North Texans took away was resilience. Worth being precise here: a home battery is a separate product that backs up your own home during an outage — it doesn't change Oncor's wires service, which is the same for every retail provider you could choose.