Duke Energy Ohio Inc electricity rates

It serves 294,084 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Ohio. At 15.00¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Ohio, 23.2% under the statewide average of 19.52¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 888 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

A shareholder-owned company whose rates are set by the state regulator, including an approved return on the capital it has invested. 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 Duke Energy Ohio Inc customer went 321 minutes without electricity across 1.05 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is worse than typical. Overhead lines through wooded or storm-exposed terrain are the usual explanation, and the fix is vegetation management and circuit automation, both of which are recovered through rates.

Duke Energy Ohio Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 17 households were enrolled, about 0.1% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

5,334 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 38.75 megawatts. That works out to 18.1 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.