Texas Electricity

By Meter Energy Inc.

Overview

Texas Electricity, from Meter Energy, compares residential electricity plans in deregulated Texas ZIP codes. Provide a ZIP code and optional monthly usage to see estimated bills, effective rates, contract terms, fees, renewable percentages, and available plan documents and signup links. Filter by exact or minimum contract length, retailer, or 100% renewable content. Usage defaults to 1,000 kWh per month, and searches without a retailer or term filter use 12-month plans. Compact comparisons show a curated selection sorted by estimated rate, may include Meter Energy's Standard plan, and favor selected providers; they are not an exhaustive list of the cheapest plans. If a requested retailer has no matches, results include other providers with an explanatory message. Estimates are not guaranteed bills. Signup takes place on an external website; the app does not enroll customers or access customer accounts. Search inputs and link clicks are recorded for analytics. Unsupported or unverified service areas return an error instead of fallback rates.

Tools

find_electricity_plans

ChatGPT

Use when a user wants to compare residential electricity plans in a deregulated Texas ZIP code, estimate a bill, or filter by contract term, provider, or 100% renewable content. Requires a ZIP code; usage defaults to 1000 kWh/month. Optional monthly solar export kWh (for example avgMonthlyExportKwh from a Smart Meter Texas pull) returns Meter's solar buyback plans, Saver and Earner, each priced with its buyback credit at that import/export mix; market plans are compared for homes without exports. Returns a curated selection sorted by estimated effective rate, with fees, terms, EFL and signup links. Compact results may include a Meter plan and favor selected providers; they are not an exhaustive cheapest-plan list. Unmatched provider filters return clearly labeled alternatives. Records search analytics and diagnostic logs. Does not enroll users, access accounts, or support municipal utilities, co-ops, commercial service, battery-credit calculations, or other states.

get_smt_data

ChatGPT

Check on or fetch a Smart Meter Texas usage pull started with request_smt_data, by its requestId. Returns the status and, once complete, up to 12 months of grid import and solar export totals by month, peak demand, and a CSV download of the full 15-minute data. Aurora Solar, OpenSolar, and Solargraf import files are also returned for installers who ask for one; don't offer them otherwise. For a Texas homeowner looking at their own meter's usage, or an installer working with a customer's.

lookup_esi_id

ChatGPT

Use when a Texas homeowner needs the ESI ID (Electric Service Identifier) for their own home's electricity meter and doesn't have their electricity bill handy, or an installer needs it for a customer's home. Takes the service address and returns matching service points, each with its ESI ID, normalized address, and serving utility (Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP Texas, TNMP, or Lubbock Power & Light). ESI IDs are public identifiers in the Texas electricity market. Show the matches and have the user confirm which one is their home before using the ESI ID, for example with request_smt_data. Read-only: returns no names, account details, usage, or billing data. Texas deregulated service only.

request_smt_data

ChatGPT

Pull up to 12 months of 15-minute electricity usage for a Texas smart meter from Smart Meter Texas: grid imports, solar exports, monthly totals, peak demand, and a CSV download of the full 15-minute data (Aurora Solar, OpenSolar, and Solargraf import files are available for installers who ask). For a Texas homeowner pulling their own meter's usage, or an installer pulling a customer's. Needs the ESI ID (or service address), meter number, and current electricity provider, all printed on the electricity bill. If the user has shared a bill image or PDF, read those values from it and call this tool; it takes the values, not the file.