Oncor Delivery Charges Rise November 1, 2026: What It Could Add to Your Bill
If Oncor delivers your power, as it does across much of Dallas-Fort Worth, from Dallas to Fort Worth (your bill names your delivery company), part of every electric bill goes to Oncor, the company that owns the poles and wires, no matter which provider you buy from. On October 15, Oncor filed its rates for November with the Public Utility Commission of Texas. The per-kWh delivery charge goes up on November 1.
| Before Nov 1 | From Nov 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery charge per kWh | 6.0295¢ | 6.8673¢ |
| Monthly customer + metering charge | $4.06 | $4.06 (unchanged) |
| Delivery cost at 500 kWh | $34.21 | $38.40 |
| Delivery cost at 1,000 kWh | $64.36 | $72.73 |
| Delivery cost at 2,000 kWh | $124.65 | $141.41 |
That's about $8.38 more a month at 1,000 kWh before taxes and fees, or about $120 a year for a household that uses 14,400 kWh.
Will your bill go up?
It depends on how your plan handles delivery.
- Your plan lists delivery separately. Many Electricity Facts Labels (EFLs) show a line like "TDU Delivery Charges: $4.06 per month and 6.0295¢ per kWh" and say they're passed through. Then expect the increase from November 1. Texas rules let a fixed-rate plan's price change during the contract, if your plan's terms allow it, to reflect actual changes in delivery charges, so "fixed" doesn't shield you from this one. Your provider doesn't have to mail a notice first, but your bill has to show the change as its own line, or say that it may include changes like this.
- Already on a plan? Your contract's own facts label and Terms of Service decide this, not what the provider lists today. If they pass delivery changes through, whether delivery is shown separately or folded into one price, expect the increase from November 1.
- Shopping? Providers refile their plans at different times. When I checked on October 16, 64 of the 174 Oncor-area plans in my data for Flower Mound (75028) already listed the November rate in their facts label.
If you're shopping right now
Some listed prices already include the new rate and some can't be checked. In the same October 16 check of the 174 plans listed for 75028, 58 PowerToChoose prices clearly matched the November rate, 1 clearly still used the old one, and the other 115 couldn't be told apart from the numbers alone (credits, fees, or no delivery rate in the facts-label data). The counts differ because credits and fees can keep a listed price from matching either rate.
Where our price for a plan uses Oncor's delivery rate from before November 1, ElectricityFinder notes about how much that plan may cost more from then at your usage, and when we pick the lowest-cost plan we compare it as if it carried the new rate. The price we show doesn't change. If that changes which plan we call lowest, the results say so and name the plan. For plans whose price doesn't show us a delivery rate, or shows one we can't match to Oncor's filing, we can't tell, so we compare them at their listed price; check the facts label.
Compare plans at your own usage.
Compare Plans NowWhere the numbers come from
Oncor's monthly rate report to the PUCT for rates effective November 1, 2026 (Project 58511, item 68, filed October 15, 2026). The "From Nov 1" figures are the ones Oncor's report prints; the "Before Nov 1" figures are my arithmetic from the current rates. The plan counts are from ElectricityFinder's own data on October 16 and will change as providers refile. Fixed-rate pass-through: 16 TAC §25.475(b)(5), (d)(2). This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice; your plan's Terms of Service control. ElectricityFinder is not affiliated with Oncor.