Automotive facilities in the Coastal Bend run a business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations load of roughly 80,000-300,000 kWh/month on AEP Texas service. We put that load in front of vetted suppliers and engineer the contract around how you actually use power.
AEP Texas delivers power along the Coastal Bend while retail supply stays fully competitive. The ERCOT South zone behaves differently from Houston or North: it hosts a large share of the state's wind interconnection, which regularly pushes zonal prices down overnight and occasionally negative, while heavy industrial process load holds a steady floor under daytime demand. That combination makes indexed and block-and-index structures unusually attractive here for facilities that can run flexible load at night — a structure we would not recommend to the same business in Dallas. AEP Texas distribution charges also differ from both Oncor and CenterPoint, so a Texas-wide portfolio cannot be priced off a single delivery assumption.
Automotive is not the dominant sector in this territory, where refining, petrochemicals, port and export terminals, and wind generation interconnects carry most of the commercial load. That is an advantage worth using: a automotive load is unfamiliar enough locally that it is routinely priced off generic assumptions rather than off your actual usage. A business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations profile at 80,000-300,000 kWh/month is the specific thing we take to market, and the contract structure follows from it: fixed, indexed, or block-and-index, sized to your actual baseload rather than to a nameplate figure.
At 80,000-300,000 kWh/month, most automotive sites are demand-metered — which means the schedule, not just the rate, drives the bill.
| Schedule | Typically covers |
|---|---|
| Secondary Service | standard commercial accounts |
| Primary Service | facilities at distribution primary voltage |
| Transmission Service | refining and petrochemical sites at transmission voltage |
Schedule names, demand thresholds and eligibility rules change with each rate case, and the schedule an account was originally placed on is frequently no longer the one that fits it. We verify yours against the actual bill rather than assuming — that check is free, and it is where a meaningful share of the savings on this page comes from.
Every service below is scoped to automotive dealerships, service centers, body shops, parts warehouses on AEP Texas. Start where you want to cut cost first.
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*Illustrative estimate based on typical automotive usage (80,000-300,000 kWh/month) at current ERCOT commercial rates. Actual savings depend on your load profile, rate schedule and contract timing.