San Antonio Metro is served by CPS Energy, which sells the power as well as delivering it. There is no competitive supplier to switch to here — so the savings come from the rate schedule, the demand component and billing recovery.
CPS Energy is owned by the City of San Antonio and is the largest municipal utility in the United States. Like Austin, San Antonio sits geographically inside ERCOT but outside its retail choice market, so there is no supplier bidding to be had. The savings here come from three places: making sure a demand-metered account is on the right schedule, cutting the billed demand peak that sets a large share of the bill, and recovering billing and metering errors — which on multi-meter campuses across Bexar County are more common than owners expect.
Texas opened to competition in 2002, but the terms are set territory by territory, not statewide. CPS Energy'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 CPS Energy specifically.
Which schedule you are on sets the shape of the bill before a single kilowatt-hour is priced.
| Schedule | Typically covers |
|---|---|
| Small General Service | accounts below the demand-metering threshold |
| Large General Service | demand-metered commercial accounts |
| Primary Service | facilities served at primary 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.
Military installations, healthcare systems, tourism and a growing manufacturing corridor dominate commercial load here. Each sector carries a different load shape on CPS Energy, and the strategy changes with it.
Manufacturing facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 500,000+ kWh/month on a 24/7 baseload with peak production hours profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Manufacturing Energy in San Antonio Metro →Healthcare facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 800,000+ kWh/month on a constant high load with minimal fluctuation profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Healthcare Energy in San Antonio Metro →Hospitality facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 200,000-700,000 kWh/month on a variable based on occupancy and season profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Hospitality Energy in San Antonio Metro →Retail facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 100,000-500,000 kWh/month on a high during business hours, lower overnight profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Retail Energy in San Antonio Metro →Data Centers facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 2,000,000+ kWh/month on a consistent extreme baseload profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Data Centers Energy in San Antonio Metro →Education facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 300,000-1,000,000 kWh/month on a academic calendar-driven fluctuations profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Education Energy in San Antonio Metro →Property Management facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a business hours peak for commercial, evening for residential profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Property Management Energy in San Antonio Metro →Food Service facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 50,000-200,000 kWh/month on a meal period peaks with constant refrigeration baseload profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Food Service Energy in San Antonio Metro →Warehouse & Logistics facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 400,000-1,500,000 kWh/month on a 24/7 operations with shift-based peaks profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Warehouse & Logistics Energy in San Antonio Metro →Automotive facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 80,000-300,000 kWh/month on a business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Automotive Energy in San Antonio Metro →Municipal & Government facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a varies widely by facility type profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Municipal & Government Energy in San Antonio Metro →Agriculture facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a highly seasonal with weather dependency profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Agriculture Energy in San Antonio Metro →Technology facilities in the San Antonio Metro typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a extended hours with always-on equipment profile, billed on CPS Energy commercial schedules.
Technology Energy in San Antonio Metro →CPS Energy serves Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe Counties.
Served by CPS Energy, a municipal utility — retail supplier choice is not available, so savings come from rate class, demand and efficiency work.
San Antonio 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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