City of Cleveland electricity rates

It serves 64,914 residential customers in Ohio. At 14.87¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Ohio, 23.8% under the statewide average of 19.52¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 493 kilowatt-hours a month against 871 nationally. Dense housing, a mild climate or heating that runs on gas rather than electricity all push consumption down, and any of them can leave a household with a modest bill despite a high rate.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average City of Cleveland customer went 170 minutes without electricity across 1.08 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

175 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.93 megawatts. That works out to 2.7 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.