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Ohio Power Co rate plans

6 residential plans are currently open to new customers that we can price side by side. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.

Looking for when the expensive hours are? Ohio Power’s peak hours, plan by plan →

What does Ohio Power cost at a normal month’s usage?

A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,233 a year on the cheapest of the 6 plans we can price here — Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD) — and $2,564 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.

Annual cost at Ohio Power by monthly usage
A month of	Cheapest, a year	On which plan	Priciest
500 kWh	$709	Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD)	$1,392
1,000 kWh	$1,233	Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD)	$2,564
2,000 kWh	$2,281	Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD)	$4,907

The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.

How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?

Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Ohio Power Co files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,010 and $2,066 a year. That $1,056 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.

The plan most households land on by default, Residential Service Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS), comes to about $1,057. The cheapest option here, Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD), comes to $1,010 — a gap of about $47 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.

4 of these 6 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.

Watch the fixed charges too. Across these plans they run from $185 to $225 a year before a single kilowatt-hour is counted. For a small household that difference alone can outweigh the per-kWh price, which is why comparing cents per kilowatt-hour on its own quietly misleads.

How Ohio Power compares across Ohio

Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 4 Ohio utilities we cover, and Ohio Power is the cheapest of the lot at about $1,057 a year; the state median is $1,798. The dearest, Ohio Edison, charges $2,510 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.

The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $640 here against a state median of $1,083, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,389 against $2,340. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 11.2¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.

Inside Ohio Power itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $1,056 a year — less than the $1,453 between Ohio's cheapest and dearest utilities. Here the address decides most of the bill; the plan decides the rest.

Every Ohio utility we cover, priced for the same three households →

Which plan would cost you least?

No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.

Start from a household like yours

Then correct anything below that doesn’t match.

A typical monthly bill

$a month

A bill that size works out to about 1,340 kWh a month on Residential Service Ohio Power Rate Zone. If your bill shows a different number of kWh, switch to and use theirs — it is the more accurate of the two.

What else runs on electricity

Electric carcharged at home

Electric water heaterincluding heat pump

Central air conditioningsummer only

Electric heatheat pump or resistance

That adds up to 16,316 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.

Same usage, different plan

$1,723a year

That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD) — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.

Plan	Per year	Vs best
Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD)One rate, every hour of the year.	$1,608	—
Residential Service Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS)One rate, every hour of the year.	$1,680	+$71
Residential Time-of-Use Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOU)One rate, every hour of the year.	$1,680	+$71
Residential Service Demand Metered Ohio Power Rate Zone, Bundled (RSDM)One rate, every hour of the year.	$2,329	+$721
Residential Time-of-Day Bundled Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD)Peak hits 9pm–7am every day, all year.	$2,924	+$1,316
Residential Service Bundled Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS)One rate, every hour of the year.	$2,960	+$1,352
Residential Time-of-Use Bundled Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOU)Peak hits 6am–9am in Nov–Apr, 2pm–6pm in May–Oct — on weekdays.	$3,331	+$1,723

An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.

Before you switch anything

Every plan, in detail

Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.