Dallas-Fort Worth is Oncor territory inside ERCOT North load zone. Oncor delivers the power and maintains the wires whoever supplies it, so competitive supply carries no reliability consequence — only a lower price.
Oncor is the wires company for most of North Texas — it reads your meter and delivers the power, while supply comes from whichever retail provider wins your business. The ERCOT North zone is where the state's data center and corporate campus growth has concentrated, and that has a specific consequence for buyers: four-coincident-peak transmission charges are set by your demand during the four summer monthly system peaks, so a single bad afternoon in August can set a cost you carry for the following year. Managing that window is usually worth more here than shaving a tenth of a cent off the energy rate.
Texas opened to competition in 2002, but the terms are set territory by territory, not statewide. Oncor's distribution rates, its default supply price and its rate schedules are all set independently of the other utilities in Texas — which is why an offer that is genuinely competitive in one part of the state can be mediocre here. Everything on this page is scoped to Oncor specifically.
Which schedule you are on sets the shape of the bill before a single kilowatt-hour is priced.
| Schedule | Typically covers |
|---|---|
| Secondary Service Less Than 10 kW | small commercial accounts |
| Secondary Service Greater Than 10 kW | the bulk of mid-size commercial load |
| Primary Service | campuses and large single-site facilities |
| Transmission Service | industrial 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.
Corporate campuses, data centers, distribution and a deep light-manufacturing base dominate commercial load here. Each sector carries a different load shape on Oncor, and the strategy changes with it.
Data Centers facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 2,000,000+ kWh/month on a consistent extreme baseload profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Data Centers Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Property Management facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a business hours peak for commercial, evening for residential profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Property Management Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Warehouse & Logistics facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 400,000-1,500,000 kWh/month on a 24/7 operations with shift-based peaks profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Warehouse & Logistics Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Manufacturing facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 500,000+ kWh/month on a 24/7 baseload with peak production hours profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Manufacturing Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Healthcare facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 800,000+ kWh/month on a constant high load with minimal fluctuation profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Healthcare Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Retail facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 100,000-500,000 kWh/month on a high during business hours, lower overnight profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Retail Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Hospitality facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 200,000-700,000 kWh/month on a variable based on occupancy and season profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Hospitality Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Education facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 300,000-1,000,000 kWh/month on a academic calendar-driven fluctuations profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Education Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Food Service facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 50,000-200,000 kWh/month on a meal period peaks with constant refrigeration baseload profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Food Service Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Automotive facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 80,000-300,000 kWh/month on a business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Automotive Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Municipal & Government facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a varies widely by facility type profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Municipal & Government Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Agriculture facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a highly seasonal with weather dependency profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Agriculture Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Technology facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a extended hours with always-on equipment profile, billed on Oncor commercial schedules.
Technology Energy in Dallas-Fort Worth →Oncor serves Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, Rockwall Counties.
A dense Oncor territory where commercial rates swing hardest on summer peaks.
Dallas Energy Management →An Oncor market with heavy industrial and logistics load.
Fort Worth Energy Management →A mid-cities Oncor market mixing entertainment, retail and light industrial load.
Arlington Energy Management →A corporate-campus market in Oncor territory with large office and data center load.
Plano Energy Management →Different utility, different rates. If your facilities span more than one of these, they need more than one strategy.
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