Ohio · Cooperative
South Central Power Company Electricity Rates
Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.
- 14.87¢
- Avg residential price / kWh
- 117.5K
- Residential customers
- -10.2%
- vs Ohio average
- $1,916
- Implied avg annual bill
South Central Power Company charged an average of 14.87¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - below the Ohio average and below the US average.
South Central Power Company is cooperative - a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Its reported average residential price is below the Ohio customer-weighted average (-10.2%). Its customers used above the national residential norm at about 12,889 kWh a year each.
How this price compares
Ranked by price against the 39 utilities reporting residential rates in Ohio, South Central Power Company comes 12th of 39. The state's range runs from City of Celina - (OH) at 9.12¢ to Sunnova at 30.00¢, so where a household sits inside Ohio depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.
Against the 14 other cooperative utilities reporting in Ohio, which averaged 17.23¢, South Central Power Company is below its own ownership class within the state (-13.7%).
All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 39 reporting utilities.
Where South Central Power Company sits among Ohio utilities
2024 average residential price across the 39 utilities reporting a rate in Ohio
14.87¢/kWh Top 31% most affordable More affordable than 71% of 38 other utilities
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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024
| Benchmark | Price / kWh | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| South Central Power Company | 14.87¢ | - |
| Ohio (customer-weighted, 39 utilities) | 16.55¢ | -10.2% |
| United States average | 16.48¢ | -9.8% |
| Cooperative utilities nationally (622) | 14.14¢ | +5.2% |
Rate against consumption: Ohio utilities
Scale and consumption
South Central Power Company reported 117.5K residential customers, ranking 6th of 39 utilities in Ohio by customers served and covering 5.9% of the state's reported residential customers.
Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 12,889 kWh per customer per year - above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,916.
Within Ohio the median reporting utility sells about 10,984 kWh per customer, so South Central Power Company customers use +17.3% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.
Every utility reporting in Ohio
All 39 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Ohio, largest first, with South Central Power Company marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | Investor Owned | 550.8K | 19.33¢ |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | Investor Owned | 294.1K | 15.00¢ |
| Ohio Edison Co | Investor Owned | 251.8K | 16.18¢ |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 132.5K | 15.32¢ |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | Investor Owned | 131.4K | 16.76¢ |
| South Central Power Company (this page) | Cooperative | 117.5K | 14.87¢ |
| The Toledo Edison Co | Investor Owned | 79.0K | 16.64¢ |
| City of Cleveland - (OH) | Municipal | 64.9K | 14.87¢ |
| City of Hamilton - (OH) | Municipal | 27.0K | 15.44¢ |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | Cooperative | 25.8K | 16.88¢ |
| City of Cuyahoga Falls - (OH) | Municipal | 24.3K | 13.02¢ |
| Consolidated Cooperative | Cooperative | 16.9K | 16.11¢ |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 16.3K | 19.90¢ |
| Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | Cooperative | 16.3K | 16.18¢ |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | Municipal | 15.7K | 13.19¢ |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | Municipal | 15.5K | 11.32¢ |
| Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Inc | Cooperative | 15.3K | 18.00¢ |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | Cooperative | 15.2K | 17.26¢ |
| Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 14.7K | 16.52¢ |
| City of Bowling Green - (OH) | Municipal | 13.1K | 15.36¢ |
| City of Wadsworth - (OH) | Municipal | 12.2K | 11.99¢ |
| City of Niles - (OH) | Municipal | 11.9K | 9.31¢ |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 11.8K | 15.67¢ |
| Butler Rural Electric Coop Inc - (OH) | Cooperative | 11.4K | 18.16¢ |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 11.3K | 17.05¢ |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | Cooperative | 10.8K | 15.27¢ |
| City of Painesville | Municipal | 10.8K | 12.75¢ |
| City of Piqua - (OH) | Municipal | 9.8K | 12.85¢ |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 9.2K | 17.67¢ |
| City of Lebanon - (OH) | Municipal | 8.7K | 11.14¢ |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | Cooperative | 8.4K | 17.09¢ |
| City of Celina - (OH) | Municipal | 7.6K | 9.12¢ |
| City of Orrville - (OH) | Municipal | 6.3K | 10.96¢ |
| City of Dover - (OH) | Municipal | 5.9K | 15.03¢ |
| Clyde Light & Power | Municipal | 2.8K | 12.10¢ |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | Cooperative | 863 | 19.47¢ |
| EverBright, LLC | Behind the Meter | 267 | 15.34¢ |
| Palmetto Solar, LLC | Behind the Meter | 21 | 19.21¢ |
| Sunnova | Behind the Meter | 4 | 30.00¢ |
For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Ohio.
Common questions about South Central Power Company rates
- How much does South Central Power Company charge per kWh?
- South Central Power Company reported an average residential price of 14.87¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
- Is South Central Power Company expensive compared with the rest of Ohio?
- Its average residential price is below the Ohio customer-weighted average of 16.55¢ per kWh, a difference of -10.2%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 39 utilities reporting residential service in Ohio.
- What is the average electricity bill for South Central Power Company customers?
- Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 12,889 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,916 a year, or about $160 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
- Who owns South Central Power Company?
- EIA classifies South Central Power Company as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, Cooperative utilities averaged 14.14¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.
What this page does and does not tell you
- An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
- Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.
See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.