Texas electricity · Evidence guide
What is an Electricity Facts Label?
The EFL is a standardized Texas retail-electricity disclosure for price, contract terms, sources, and environmental information.
Last reviewed 2026-08-21 · Readiness: READY
30-second answer
The answer depends on the full formula.
An Electricity Facts Label, or EFL, is the standardized disclosure for a specific retail electricity product. It summarizes price, contract terms, fuel sources, and environmental information and shows average price at defined usage levels.
The EFL is essential plan evidence, but it is not the whole contract and it is not the household's bill. Read it with the TOS and YRAC, verify the version and service territory, then apply its formula to actual usage.
Key facts
What is known—and on what basis
Standardized disclosure
PUCT rules prescribe EFL content and format for retail electricity products.
One contract document
The EFL works with the TOS, YRAC, and enrollment documentation; it does not replace them.
Reference prices
The 500, 1,000, and 2,000 kWh figures are standardized calculations, not a promise for every billing month.
Why
Why the general answer can reverse
An advertisement can compress a plan into one number. The EFL exposes the underlying product identity, average-price table, recurring charges or credits, term, and other disclosures needed to reconstruct the price.
Version matters. Providers can offer multiple products with similar names, and terms can change across revisions or territories. Use the exact EFL tied to the offer or contract rather than a search result with a similar title.
An EFL can validate a formula at its disclosed anchors while the household bill still differs at other usage levels, in a partial period, or because of non-recurring items.
Evidence
What to check in the actual situation
- Provider, product name, EFL version or identifier, effective date, and TDU territory.
- Average prices at 500, 1,000, and 2,000 kWh and the recurring-charge explanation behind them.
- Energy charge, base charge, bill credits, minimum-use rules, time-of-use windows, term, and ETF.
- Fuel mix, renewable content, and any limitations that matter to the consumer's question.
Decision framework
When each Eyebiss label could apply
| Label | Condition |
|---|---|
| KEEP | Supported current-plan economics remain competitive for the household after all represented charges and constraints are included. |
| WAIT | A known timing boundary, such as contract expiration, makes later reconsideration better supported than action now. |
| SWITCH | Complete, current evidence shows a better household outcome after fees, remaining term, and comparable plan mechanics are included. |
| NEEDS_INFORMATION | The exact EFL or related contract documents cannot be matched to the bill, offer, territory, or decision date. |
Worked example
Read the table and the formula together
If the 1,000 kWh column is much lower than the 500 kWh column, inspect the charge explanation before calling the plan cheaper.
- Identify any fixed charge that is spread over more kWh at 1,000.
- Identify any credit or minimum rule that turns on between the two anchors.
- Recalculate at the household's actual kWh and compare the result with the bill.
Edge cases
Where the answer needs more care
- A cached or provider-hosted EFL URL may later point to a changed document; preserve the exact revision and retrieval evidence.
- A scanned or inaccessible EFL may require human observation without fabricating text.
- Prepaid and time-of-use products can have additional disclosures or evidence needs.
Sources
Evidence used on this page
- PUCT Substantive Rule 25.475: General Retail Electric Provider Requirements and Information DisclosuresPublic Utility Commission of Texas
The contract documents include the TOS, EFL, and YRAC. The rule defines fixed-rate and variable-price products. The EFL uses standardized price disclosures, including specified usage levels. Contract-expiration notices must describe termination penalties and applicable timing.
Retrieved 2026-08-21 · Texas · primary source · freshness highConsumers should verify the current rule and their own TOS, EFL, YRAC, and expiration notice before acting. - Power to Choose GlossaryPublic Utility Commission of Texas
Official consumer definitions for EFL, REP, delivery company, kWh, contract documents, and plan charges.
Retrieved 2026-08-21 · Texas · primary source · freshness mediumDefinitions summarize consumer concepts; controlling law and the customer's contract remain authoritative for a dispute. - How Eyebiss reasons from electricity evidenceEyebiss
Eyebiss preserves official facts, observations, calculations, analysis, inference, and unknowns as distinct provenance classes. Eyebiss may abstain when evidence is missing, stale, or conflicting.
Retrieved 2026-08-21 · Texas · primary source · freshness highThis methodology describes the public knowledge architecture and does not claim live statewide market coverage.
Check your actual situation
Bring the EFL and the bill together
Upload a supported bill and provide the exact EFL identity when available. The checker asks for missing evidence rather than inferring unresolved plan terms.