About WattFacts

WattFacts is an independent project that helps people understand and compare electricity costs in Texas. Founded and maintained by Kos Murashkin, it brings public plan data, worked examples and practical calculators together so readers can look beyond a headline rate.

Our focus is the bill at your usage, not just the price printed in an advertisement. A low rate at 1,000 kWh can tell a different story at 500 or 2,000 kWh. Delivery charges, fixed fees and conditional credits all affect that comparison.

Kos Murashkin, author and founder

Kos Murashkin is the founder, author and person responsible for WattFacts. He runs the site as an independent side project and is responsible for its development, explanatory content and editorial decisions. “Kos” is the short name he uses publicly.

Kos's work on WattFacts centers on turning source documents and public datasets into calculations readers can inspect. Guides explain the assumptions behind each example; reports preserve dated data; calculators let readers change the inputs instead of accepting a single advertised result.

You can find his professional profile on LinkedIn: Kos Murashkin. For questions about WattFacts, source documents or a correction, contact contact@wattfacts.com.

WattFacts is maintained by one person. References to “we” describe the project and its published approach, not a separate team of electricity advisers or an independent review board. Automated collection supports the work; it does not mean every offer has been personally checked by Kos.

Who the site is for

WattFacts is for people comparing residential electricity plans in parts of Texas where retail choice is available, checking a delivery charge or trying to understand why their bill changes with usage. City pages put the comparison in local context, while guides explain terms that are easy to miss in a plan summary.

If your address is served by a municipal utility or cooperative without retail choice, a list of competitive offers does not establish that you can switch. Availability and the delivery utility must be checked for your exact address.

Where the numbers come from

• Plan prices: Power to Choose, the official plan list of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, checked every morning.
• Average prices Texans actually paid: the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
• Cities, counties and ZIP codes: the U.S. Census Bureau.

How we calculate our numbers

What WattFacts adds to public listings

A list of prices does not tell you whether the same offer remains competitive when your usage changes. Our city comparisons shortlist fixed-rate offers at three reference levels and show those same offers across all three levels. Our guides work through the arithmetic of delivery charges, conditional bill credits and free-hour pricing. The examples identify their assumptions rather than presenting illustrative savings as a provider quote.

The monthly Texas electricity price reports preserve a dated sample and publish downloadable tables. This separates reproducible research from the live comparison tables, which change as offers change. Census housing figures and county weather and outage records supply local context; they do not establish a special city electricity tariff.

Readers can also use the electricity calculators to explore their own assumptions. The space heater calculator estimates running costs from power, time and an entered price. The TDU delivery guide separates fixed and variable charges, and the bill credit guide compares conditional discounts across individual billing periods. An illustrative input is identified as an example, not described as a current provider offer.

Editorial responsibility and checks

Kos Murashkin is responsible for the material published under the WattFacts name. The project contact is contact@wattfacts.com; use that address for corrections, methodology questions and attribution requests. WattFacts does not claim to be a licensed electricity adviser or to have inspected a reader’s home.

Automated jobs collect public source data and run validation checks. They do not turn every data point into a manually verified quotation. Explanatory guides identify the source documents and the date reviewed. Our solar comparisons distinguish reviewed plan documents from collection status and hide component charges when required document checks are no longer valid.

We compare listed costs rather than selling a provider recommendation. A price ranking is not a customer-service score; where a PUCT complaint score is available, it is shown separately. Prices can change after collection, and exact-address eligibility must be confirmed with the provider.

Updates and transparency

A page's update date and a dataset's collection or review date can mean different things. Adding a calculator or clarifying an explanation does not make an older tariff snapshot current. We keep source dates visible so that readers can distinguish a new explanation from newly collected rates.

Published monthly reports preserve their dated samples rather than silently replacing them with today's offers. For the calculation methods, geographic coverage and known limitations, read our methodology. For advertising and partner-link policies, read our disclosure.

How to report a problem

Send the page URL, the plan or number involved, the date you saw it and the source that conflicts with it. Please omit account numbers, payment details and other private information. We can investigate a data discrepancy; we cannot change your contract or resolve a provider billing dispute. When you compare a historical report with a current offer, include both dates so that a normal price change is not mistaken for an error.

What the calculations cannot tell you

Market medians are benchmarks, not contracts. A minimum price at 500 kWh and a minimum at 2,000 kWh can belong to different plans. County weather models describe a hypothetical usage pattern, not your meter. Published three-point rates cannot reveal every fee or credit threshold. For an enrollment decision, read the provider’s current Electricity Facts Label and Terms of Service and calculate the bill using your own usage.

What we are not

We are not an electricity provider, a broker or a government agency, and we are not affiliated with any provider or utility. We don’t sell plans. If we ever earn money from a link, we say so next to it. Disclosure