Cheapest electricity in Ohio: the lowest rate in your utility area

Find your utility on your bill. The table shows its price to compare, the lowest fixed price for 12 months or more with no fees, who sells it and how many offers beat the price. The gap between the first two columns is your possible saving.

The numbers come from the Energy Choice Ohio charts, last read October 24, 2026, and a robot keeps them current. A name in the table is a fact about the chart, not a rating of the company. If a "price ends" date has passed when you read this, your bill holds a new price, so use that one. Each 1¢ per kWh is about $10 a month at 1,000 kWh.

Spotted a low price? Check it here first. Pick your utility, then type the price, any monthly fee, the length and the cancel fee. The tool adds up the whole term and tells you whether the offer beats your utility.

This is an estimate of supply cost, not a bill. It uses your utility's price as we last read it and shows the date that price ends, because the answer can change after it. It leaves out taxes and delivery. You can save a reminder for that date or print the result. Nothing you type is stored.

A fixed price does not move when your utility's price resets. That is why the end date matters. If your utility's price falls at the reset, a fixed offer you signed can stop being a deal.

A trap is a low price with a cost hiding next to it. Check these before you trust a number.

Here is a made-up example at 600 kWh a month. Offer A is 10.2¢ fixed for 12 months with a $10 monthly fee. Offer B is 11.0¢ fixed for 12 months with no fee.

Offer A has the lower rate and costs $62 more over the year. At 1,500 kWh the fee counts for less and Offer A would win. The kWh you use decides.

Many Ohio cities and counties buy power for all homes in their area. Your bill may already show a city rate. That rate is your price to beat, not your utility's. You can opt out of the program if you find a better offer.

Read about the programs in NOPEC, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. If your bill names a program, enter that price as your price to beat in the tool.

Find your utility and kWh, look at its lowest offers, test two or three, read the terms and sign with a reminder set.

1. 1
   Find your utility and any city program.

   Both are on your bill.

2. 2
   Look up the lowest fixed rates.

   Use the table above, or the state's chart.

3. 3
   Test two or three offers.

   Use the tool, with the real term and fees.

4. 4
   Read the contract terms.

   Check the fixed price, the cancel fee and the end of the deal.

5. 5
   Sign, then watch the clock.

   You have 7 calendar days to cancel (for phone and web sign-ups, counted from your utility's confirmation notice). Mark your deal's end date and your utility's price end date.

For the method, read our guide to comparing offers. To read the state's chart column by column, see the PUCO chart guide. For company checks, see Ohio electric suppliers.