Taft, Texas electricity: AEP Texas Central wires and 2,022 competitive homes

Taft wires and choice

AEP Texas Central outages: aeptexas.com/outages. AEP Texas Central

Taft's 1,995 placed homes sit in unsplit ZIP codes; a lookup still confirms each address.

Non-choice utilities listed by EIA (2024) for San Patricio: 1.

Moving to Taft

Local numbers for setting up a home in Taft, each checked on the official source. More contacts, and a printable list, are on Taft helpful move-in information.

• City hall (ask about water service): City of Taft: City Hall (main line), 361-528-3512.
• Natural gas: CenterPoint Energy: gas leak emergency (24/7), 888-876-5786.
• Public schools: Taft ISD.
• Driver license: Texas DPS Driver License Office: Sinton, 512-424-2600.

A move to Taft comes with a short list of start-service calls: gas service with CenterPoint Energy. Put electricity on that list early, so you can compare plans and see the estimated electricity costs before your start date.

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Weather and electricity in Taft

Typical weather near Taft, from the nearest NOAA station with a complete 1991-2020 record: Welder Wildlife Foundation, about 9 miles from the city center (station elevation 50 ft). These are normals for that station, not readings at your address. August is the warmest month on average, with a normal daily high of 94°F; January has the coolest average low, 44°F. Average daily highs reach 90°F or more in June to August. No month averages a daily low at or below freezing.

For electricity, the normals point to two seasons that can lift a household's usage: cooling-degree days (a measure of how far each day's mean temperature sits above 65°F) peak in August at 584 for the month, and heating-degree days (below 65°F) peak in January at 335. How much that matters to a bill depends on the home, its insulation, its heating fuel and the household, so use your own usage history, not a regional average, when you compare plans.

Historical weather records for San Patricio County

The Texas Railroad Commission's county table lists a record low of 10°F (1989) and a record high of 111°F (2000), and a regional estimate of 18 consecutive hours as a typical longest freezing or frozen-precipitation period for San Patricio County. These are historical county extremes, not Taft's monthly averages and not a forecast; the normals above describe ordinary months.

Reference only: the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey puts the average Texas household at about 13,440 kWh a year (about 1,120 kWh a month if spread evenly). That is a statewide average for 2020, not Taft, and not an estimate for your home. EIA source.

Sources: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USC00419559; Texas Railroad Commission, Historical Weather Data by County (2022).

Taft electricity, in numbers and sources

• Land: 1.7 sq mi; 1,762 residents and 513 households per sq mi; 3.43 people per Taft household. [Gazetteer; PEP; ACS]
• Heating fuel, Taft homes (ACS 2020-2024): electricity 58.9% (±13), utility gas 41.1%; San Patricio County overall: 77.5% electric. All-electric homes feel winter rates more. [ACS]
• Of Taft homes paying a power bill, 51.4% report $250 or more a month and 12.3% under $100 (San Patricio County: 36.7% at $250+). [ACS]
• Housing stock: 84.9% detached houses, 3.6% in 5+ unit buildings; median year built 1964, 10.8% built 2010 or later. [ACS]
• ERCOT status split for 3,308 Taft home meters (Oct. 5, 2026): active 2,022, inactive 992, de-energized 294; idle share 38.9%. [ERCOT]
• ACS 2020-2024: 21.3% of Taft housing units vacant (±9). Vacant homes keep meters that are not counted as households. [ACS]
• 2,022 home meters use the Taft postal name, against 856 households inside city limits (2.36 per household): the mailing area runs well past the boundary. [ERCOT; ACS]
• 78390 carries every one of Taft's placed homes; ratio across the whole ZIP 1.10, from 2,051 home meters in all and 1,871 households. [ERCOT; ACS]

Taft homes: heating fuel, bills, housing

ACS 2020-2024, the city (Census boundary). Bill rows are shares of homes that pay an electric bill.

Taft meters and households

ERCOT report 203, Oct. 5, 2026 (Taft postal city) and Census. CSV · Method

Taft plan prices, October 19, 2026

Median fixed-rate Power to Choose listings. AEP Texas Central (164 listings): 12.7¢ / 12.1¢ / 12¢ per kWh at 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 kWh, delivery 5.6898¢ + $3.24/mo included. Not a quote.

Taft ZIP codes, row by row

Not every address in these ZIP codes has retail choice; check your exact address.

Taft split ZIP codes: none.

Towns around Taft

Taft businesses

491 Taft-addressed business meters; 8 large-class meters across its main ZIP codes (ERCOT). Request a business rate review.

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Near Taft

Wires and county: AEP Texas Central · San Patricio. Nearby pages: Aransas Pass (18 mi) · Corpus Christi (21 mi) · Ingleside (14 mi) · Odem (12 mi) · Portland (7 mi) · Sinton (8 mi)

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Sources

• ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203): full extract as of Oct 5, 2026; daily files Oct 7-18, 2026
• Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B25040, B25132, B25024, B25034, B25035, B25018, B19013, B25003, B25002, B25004 (90% margins of error)
• Census Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates
• Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place and ZCTA-to-county relationship files
• EIA-861 (2024) utility service territories by county
• PUCT Power to Choose residential offer export, Oct 19, 2026, 7:59 AM CT
• PUCT: Choosing an Electric Plan
• PUCT broker directory (BR260201)
• AEP Texas (Central Division)
• AEP Texas Central delivery tariff (effective September 29, 2026)
• Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer Files, Texas places (land and water area)

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