HOUSTON – Houston electric customers will start seeing higher bills even if their electricity use stays the same. That’s because transmission utilities like CenterPoint Energy are raising the rates they add to monthly bills starting Sept. 1.

2 Investigates reporter Amy Davis explains how much more customers can expect to pay.

The transmission rate increase is 1.5 cents more per kilowatt-hour, which can add up significantly on electric bills.

How much will my electric bill increase?

Using a customer’s August bill as an example, we did the math. The increase is on the T-D-U delivery charge. The energy charge from the retail electric provider remains unchanged.

In August, the example customer used 1,511 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Multiplying that by CenterPoint’s current rate pl

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