State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Ohio Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Ohio costs 19.52¢ per kWh (+14.2% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Ohio's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 16.96¢/kWh, 2% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 8% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 19.52¢
- May 2026 rate
- +14.2%
- year over year
- 16.96¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -2.0%
- vs US average
- 8%
- Renewable
- 5.1M
- Customers
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16.96¢/kWh residential, 11.60¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Ohio's residential average revenue per kWh is 16.96¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 11.60¢/kWh and an industrial average of 8.52¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 8% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 2% below the US average vs national residential average
- 8% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Ohio's residential electricity runs 16.96¢/kWh - 2% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 36% of other states, with 8% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 5.1M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Ohio's industrial average rose from 7.10¢/kWh to 8.52¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +20.0%.
- Ohio's commercial average rose from 10.66¢/kWh to 11.60¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +8.8%.
- Ohio's residential average rose from 15.99¢/kWh to 16.96¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +6.1%.
Who generates Ohio's electricity
Ohio has 459 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 32,831 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Gavin Power, LLC , a conventional steam coal station operated by Gavin Power, LLC , rated 2,722 MW.
The grid here is run by PJM Interconnection, LLC, the balancing authority that keeps supply and demand matched across the state.
Showing the 16 largest of 204 operable plants in Ohio by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gavin Power, LLC | Gavin Power, LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 2,722 |
| Cardinal | Cardinal Operating Company | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,790 |
| Guernsey Power Station | Guernsey Power Station LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,789 |
| Hanging Rock Energy Facility | Dynegy Hanging Rock Energy Facility | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,365 |
| Perry | Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC | Nuclear | – | 1,240 |
| South Field Energy | South Field Energy, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,210 |
| Miami Fort | Luminant Miami Fort | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,076 |
| Kyger Creek | Ohio Valley Electric Corp | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 963 |
| Rolling Hills Generating | Rolling Hills Generating LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 925 |
| Trumbull Energy Center | Clean Energy Future - Trumbull, LLC. | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 900 |
| Davis Besse | Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC | Nuclear | – | 894 |
| Waterford Power, LLC | Waterford Power, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 875 |
| Middletown- Ohio | Clean Energy Future-Lordstown, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 857 |
| Oregon Clean Energy Center | Oregon Clean Energy Center | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 818 |
| Carroll County Energy | Carroll County Energy LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 715 |
| Troy Energy LLC | Troy Energy LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 705 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Gavin Power, LLC | 1 | 2,722 |
| Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC | 2 | 2,134 |
| Cardinal Operating Company | 1 | 1,790 |
| Guernsey Power Station LLC | 1 | 1,789 |
| Dynegy Hanging Rock Energy Facility | 1 | 1,365 |
| South Field Energy, LLC | 1 | 1,210 |
| Luminant Miami Fort | 1 | 1,076 |
| American Mun Power-Ohio, Inc | 24 | 976 |
| Ohio Valley Electric Corp | 1 | 963 |
| Rolling Hills Generating LLC | 1 | 925 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$9.2B
Commercial Revenue
$6.7B
Residential Sales
54.0M MWh
Residential Customers
5.1M
What Ohio's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Ohio pay 16.96¢/kWh in 2025, across 5.1M metered households, placing the state 2% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 11.60¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 8.52¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 54.0M MWh on roughly $9.2B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Ohio's industrial rate ranks 26 of 51 while its residential rate ranks 19, so the gap between what a factory and a household pay is narrower here than in most states. Natural gas carries the majority of Ohio's in-state generation at 54.9%, though not the whole grid: coal supplies 24.4% and nuclear a further 11.7%. It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 8.1% of Ohio's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Ohio moved from 12.47¢/kWh in 2016 to 16.96¢/kWh in 2025, a 36.0% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Ohio's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Ohio can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-2.0%
Near the US average vs the US residential average
36%
of states have higher rates — Above-average cost
8%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
5.1M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Ohio generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 8.1% of generation.
- Natural Gas54.9%
- Coal24.4%
- Nuclear11.7%
- Solarrenewable5.8%
- Windrenewable2.0%
- Petroleum0.9%
- Hydrorenewable0.3%
Residential Price History
Ohio residential average revenue per kWh moved from 12.47¢/kWh in 2016 to 16.96¢/kWh in 2025 (36.0% over the window).
- Ohio residential avg
- 16.96¢/kWh 36% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Ohio residential: 2016, 12.5¢
- Ohio residential: 2017, 12.6¢
- Ohio residential: 2018, 12.6¢
- Ohio residential: 2019, 12.4¢
- Ohio residential: 2020, 12.3¢
- Ohio residential: 2021, 12.8¢
- Ohio residential: 2022, 13.9¢
- Ohio residential: 2023, 15.4¢
- Ohio residential: 2024, 16¢
- Ohio residential: 2025, 17¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Ohio full trend →
Ohio Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Ohio households paid 16.96¢/kWh while businesses paid 11.60¢/kWh, a 46.2% residential premium, one of the widest household-versus-business gaps in the country. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.96¢/kWh | 11.60¢/kWh | 8.52¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 15.99¢/kWh | 10.66¢/kWh | 7.10¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 15.38¢/kWh | 10.75¢/kWh | 7.03¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 13.85¢/kWh | 10.39¢/kWh | 7.45¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 12.77¢/kWh | 9.75¢/kWh | 6.55¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 12.29¢/kWh | 9.53¢/kWh | 6.16¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 12.38¢/kWh | 9.72¢/kWh | 6.55¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 12.56¢/kWh | 10.11¢/kWh | 7.01¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 12.63¢/kWh | 10.05¢/kWh | 6.92¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 12.47¢/kWh | 9.97¢/kWh | 6.98¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Ohio's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
16.96¢/kWh 36th affordability percentile More affordable than 36% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Ohio compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Ohio against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Using Ohio's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what Ohio builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Ohio sits 2% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Ohio price trend
- Compare Ohio side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
Read with Ohio: understanding electricity rates
Where Ohio's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Ohio
The 39 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Ohio to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| 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 | 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¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 39 reporting utilities. The 6 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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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. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.