AEP Ohio is committed to informing you about anything that could affect your electric service and bill. This spring and summer, the rates for two of the components that make up your bill will be updated. Ultimately, your bill heavily depends on how much electricity you use and who provides your electric generation supply.
Who Provides Your Generation Supply?
In Ohio, customers can choose who provides the generation supply portion of their electric service — compare rates at energychoice.ohio.gov. Pull up your bill and take a look at the images below to determine where you receive your supply from.
| AEP Ohio’s Standard Service Offer (SSO)
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A competitive supplier or governmental aggregation
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What’s Changing: Standard Service Offer Residential Customers Only
Generation Service (Supply): This charge is a pass-through from generation suppliers to AEP Ohio customers on our Standard Service Offer (SSO) rate — AEP Ohio does not profit off this charge. The average residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month can expect to see this charge increase by about $27 beginning in June. This increase only applies to SSO customers — not those who shop for competitive generation suppliers or are part of a governmental aggregation.
Why Is It Increasing? Regional transmission organization PJM oversees the electric grid for 13 states, including Ohio. In a recent auction, the entire PJM region saw significant increases in the price of electricity generation capacity compared with previous auctions. This cost is always passed to customers dollar-for-dollar, with no markup or profit for AEP Ohio. The auction responds to market pressures, which are driven largely by the supply and demand of power. Put simply, the supply of power generation capacity is limited while the demand for power is increasing. That results in higher prices for power generation. If you don’t receive your generation supply through AEP Ohio’s SSO, check with your supplier for details about potential supply charge increases.
What’s Changing: All Residential Customers
Transmission and Distribution Service: These charges cover the cost to invest in and protect the high-voltage wires and other equipment that move energy from power plants to communities, homes and businesses. Beginning this month, transmission charges will decrease by approximately $9 for the average residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month. Other charges associated with bringing the power to you have decreased by about $5 a month.
Financial Assistance Options and Ways to Save
We know bill increases are challenging, and while this generation supply increase is out of our control, we want to help. AEP Ohio offers several programs that can help customers pay their electric bills. Here’s how to learn more:
- Answer a few quick questions to find out which programs may be available to help with your electric bill. There are options for everyone.
- Check your Energy Dashboard to see your highest usage days, sign up for high bill alerts and get customized savings tips.
- Call our Customer Solutions Center at 800-672-2231 to talk with someone about your options.
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Despite what you’re hearing from Republicans, the transition to clean energy is not the driving force behind rising electricity costs, according to a July report from Energy Innovation, a think tank. Building wind, solar, and battery infrastructure is expensive, and connecting those new clean energy resources to the grid is complicated. Rather than making those investments, which save customers money in the long run, many utilities are doubling down on fossil fuel and existing infrastructure in an effort to ensure the grid is reliable.
On a $200 monthly bill, this represents a 13.5% increase. And it is permanent. Appreciate AEP sending out this nice email, but nowhere does it address what AEP is doing to minimize these “pass through” expenses now or in the future.
People call your Congressman or your
Senator. Oh wait, you can’t there all taking 2 weeks off right now
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER THEY ARE IN SESSION OR NOT. OHIO’S REPS AND SENATORS HAVE FULL MAILBOXES BOTH EMAIL AND PHONE. WE ARE COMPLETELY IGNORED.
How am I supposed to pay for someone else’s pass through charges??? $200 for a small 1 bedroom apartment is already ridiculous for someone who makes less than $1000 a month and now it’s going to go up more because of someone else’s stuff?? That doesn’t seem right.
Maybe watch the new hbo doc…. Dark money game.
Thanks for the message. You need to find a way to simplify this communication for folks who may need a little bit more explanation, notably the elderly who will be hurt the most from this increase.
I agree 💯
Mark, I agree. One thing I’ve found personally helpful is to copy and paste this whole page into ChatGPT and ask it to explain it to me like I’m a 3rd grader. You can even ask it specific questions related to your situation. It’s not always 100% right, but it helps so much to better understand complex information.
This is totally ridiculous that this crap keeps going up when are getting less and less income. And governments wonder why there are so many homeless people on the streets. The working class people are getting skinned alive with all the price increases.
The people on SS are the ones who will suffer the most. It’s sad when your AEP bill is over one third of your monthly check and in some cases. It’s more than that! AEP has been ****** the customers long enough.
This is absolutely unfair. Electricity should not be SO expensive.
With all the rising costs of EVERYTHING people like myself will have a very hard time! I’m retired on a fixed income and barely making ends meet as it is! You don’t care about any of us. If we’re late on our payments you will cut us off and not think twice about it!
Pure greed!
This is a completely unnecessary hike. I live in an area that AEP owns the power rights to numerous windmills and solar fields. Thus is supposed to be an alternative and cheaper energy source. Instead, my area has seen nothing but rate hikes ever since the windmills and solar farms have been installed. That’s because we are paying for the maintenance and transmission of the power to be sent elsewhere. We do not benefit at all from these monstrosities in our backyards! Property value has decreased and electric bills have increased!
People who live with coal and natural gas powered electric plants in their backyards have been paying for increases to send that power elsewhere too.
“We all use more electricity than before, some in your home with your constant-on appliances, tvs, computers… and some in data centers where all the internet data you use is stored.
Yes there’s greed, but a stable grid needs to be paid for and maintained or we will have to learn to live with LESS electricity.
Where did you get your information that “We all use more electricity than before”. My usage has decreased over the the last 10 years from over 700kwh to around 300kwh/month. I’ve added energy star appliances, LED bulbs, ceiling & box fans, and open curtains & windows to correspond with the time of day. My point is that my bill has continued to rise even while I reduce my usage. AEP needs a consistent source of income. If we add solar panels to our homes or reduce energy consumption, AEP loses income and raises our rates. It’s a scam!!!
How in the heck are you going to increase our bill again!!!! I’ll be one of many people writing letters to the PUCO! And I’m going to encourage everyone I talk to to do the same! AEP is being ridiculous! I own a small business and everyone we talk to is pissed 😠 over last year increase in the cost of electricity! We’re thinking it’s the new smart meters! That AEP controls! Funny how nothing has changed in our house except the meter!!! And the cost of electricity
Contacting the Ohio PUCO is fruitless. Have You ever seen the PUCO deny or reduce any increases in Electric or Natural gas prices? Remember the First Energy debacle?
Y’all are stupid if you think imma pay more to a multi billion dollar company
I don’t care if Aep making anything on it or not. How do you think people are suppose to live with these prices. And I’m sure Aep makes a bundle. I know what I pay for 750 Sq. Feet
Totally ridiculous. I hope Trump stops this nonsense..
tRump is not a solution
if you think the orange one even cares about you and how much your bills are you are sorely mistaken. Tariffs anyone?
i think this is bull crap you hiked your fees 28 Percent two years ago now your adding more garbage to the bill i should not pay for your joining a group of electric companies thats your choice i should not be paying for there repairs hell it took you 1 year to fill in a hole you put in my yard i refused to fill it in just because of all the bull crap you charge us you treat us like trash thats how i feel about your company and employees there rude impolite also when i tried to alert you to the hole from your pole in my yard the lady on the phone yelled at me sell your lies to some one else you did not even try to get a good rate your liars
This is an absolute disgrace last year AEP raised rates 28% then we were hit with an additional 10.00
Now it’s going up an average of 27.00 per month which I know AEP will not make any money from this increase.
When does the it stop all the utility bills the grocery bills the stamps you name it and we are being hit with increases all the time
Our pay checks and social security does not keep up with all the increases.
I’m 70 and have breast cancer and I still have to work there is no way I can retire
There is going to be so much more poverty
Ever since Covid it’s nothing but price gouging and it’s really hitting us seniors the worst.
Thank you for the information. It is unsettling that in the US, we have to worry about increases in costs each year, conveniently around the summer months, when most people are using air conditioning. There may be options to make payments, but who wants an ongoing high electric bill?
I truly believe that anyone who owns an electric vehicle should be charged more than someone who is using gas powered vehicles. This is ultimately the root cause.
Now, I always choose AEP for my services, and I’ll continue to do so, and I hope that my bill at the very least, remains the same. I chose AEP because I very rarely have outages and when I have, they’re always quick to get service restored . As a person who has no spouse or partner to share financial responsibilities, it’s getting tougher and tougher each year to make it.
If you’d stop paying your execs 10 million dollar salaries, maybe the rest of us could afford to heat and cool our homes.
I can’t afford a higher electric bill, the price of groceries and just about everything is hard on a low income widow!! Please keep me at $50 budget 🙏🏻
This is totally ridiculous how do you expect people to live with the increase? Everyone barley making ends meet in wanna up prices.
Power plants are being demolished in ohio.pennsylvania and new york. Any wonder price is increasing. Also years of no removal of brush is finally happening. As the price of progress elevates so does cost to consumers.
Bills keep going up and up and all we here is it’s not our fault so sick of this BS
Is this because the trumps terriffs?
All the while we’re paying for his electricity with our taxes.
Trump is working on getting the coal power plants etc brought back online. The GREEN/SOLAR consumer cost raising program was a Demo’crat agenda.
Not Trump. It’s electric car use but mostly data center usage. Electric is auctioned and those who can pay the most wins. We the people lose cause we don’t have state tax reductions nor government subsidies. Remember hearing these data centers cannot even get enough electric from companies and they want to build small nuclear plants for each data center. They don’t care about us. The love of money and power will always win.
This is crazy, my bill averages over 300 now
electric is high enough!! you say we are charged for usage, i don’t believe that!!’. i only have my lights on & my bill is over $200 a month. i have separate electric in my garage, very seldom in there, its $50 a month. QUIT with the increases already. i’m 65 on disability, my husband is 70 & we are raising our 2 grandkids ages 12 & 14. PLEASE let me feed them. greed is getting the best of AEP!!’
65 also, my normal monthly bill is less than 50$ year round.
No budget
House in upper 60’s all summer
70 in winter.
Including shop.
Well pump also
No complaints here
Also made a living repairing the boilers
Dear Sirs:
Your notice of a rate increase is most disturbing. Since only 35% of my bill goes to cost of natural gas it is perplexing why you cannot work harder to lower the administrative and transmission fees to help the consumer. In addition , Natural gas is plentiful in supply so why cannot that cost be reduced.? I am disappointed in the Ohio PUC allowing P to raise their rates so much.
Please help the consumers .
Fred Boone
People that’s total electric is gonna be using more than other people. This is getting out of hand. Already on the budget. Still 400.00 a month. What Budget? We have had at least 3 or 4 raises in 2 years. It’s time to look around at competitors.
I think this increase is bogus, just away for rich to get richer. Nobody cares about the little guys who work their butts off everyday. But the company sits back and says we will hike up payments so we do not have to pay more as a company.
This is absolutely ridiculous!!
Y’all will do anything to make sure you drain our bank accounts with your bull crap!!
Doesn’t seem like there is much accountability here. It only feels like corporate greed, and sending a message to your customers that you do not care about them. You can talk all you want about how AEP does not profit, but at the end of the day, your customers suffer. People don’t know what “electricity generation capacity “is and they don’t care.
Just another price gouging from AEP. Someone is going to make a profit and it isn’t me
I’m 70 years old on SSI and disabled. I cannot afford this increase. This is awful what is allowed to happen in this country to Seniors.
The reason the price is rising is because of woke liberal environmentalists from the previous administration have shut down power plants and have absolutely nothing to replace them with. Not going to do it with solar farms or wind farms. When demand increases and you continue to decrease the supply what happens? You guessed it prices will rise.
A lineman was checking “power poles” on my street. I asked him what he was doing. Every power pole has its own identification and is checked within a schedule to determine if it is still safe for use. Interesting process BUT, he told me that many poles in my and other towns are a hundred years old. Most are “very old” but they are still strong. THE POINT IS…the “infrastructure”/ the power poles and the power lines? When you consider the cost per pole and the cost of the power line, and their age, and the shared cost of those per house? Those power poles and power lines and transformers get paid for QUICKLY..and after that? money machine for the utility. It’s all BS.
we will be moving sometime in May as we sold our house going to an apartment complex in Grove city. As soon as everything is settled and we have a move date I will contact you the details
the rich keep getting richer, the struggling choose whether to eat, try to pay bills, or sacrifice their needed medications.
thank you to the wealthy for making life more miserable for the less fortunate.
This is crazy it’s been steadily rising for how long another excuse and more of us who can’t afford our bills due to this smdh noone here for the customers anymore
Very dissapointing
Total and unadulterated bull****! We already pay enough for electricity; this past winter I had the highest bills ever in my 10 years living at the same address and don’t give me **** about the temperature!
This is bull**** and this is why we need laws and price caps set on utilities.
I think we need some competition in the transmission and delivery of electricity.
Highway robbery! Of course the government charge is going up. Republicans need to pay their pockets a bit more on the backs of the American consumer.
You just raised prices. This is getting ridiculous!!
What the hell!!!! I’m on social security. You guys don’t get enough already!!!!!!!
This is Bull, You do this to people because you can. Looks like everyone is getting a raise at our expense.
I can’t understand why they are jacking up the bill again! I make a tiny more in my income to qualify for any help. I’m a recent widow and have to choose between paying for groceries or having my power! I guess eating applesauce and bread for dinner isn’t my choice but I bet the CEO is enjoying their lobster and steak and champagne!!
Just another way to steal from hardworking citizens who are already dealing with high inflation.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH. Why can’t we start using Solar power???
Put the solar panels in they are better than the turbines. the cost is cheaper too.
electric bills are really high for no more than I use. cook with gas, heat with gas, water heater is gas. I only do laundry a couple times a month. Can’t figure out why it’s so high.
Electric is what everyone needs. Unfortunately, utility bills just to survive is getting completely out of hand. We all see the profits that utility companies make at the end of the year and there we are especially the ones that’s retired are suffering. No compassion in the United States. There has to be something done
Because it is solar power that is causing YOUR price increases…..
If you allowed people to go online and pay extra over their budget when able, we first wouldn’t be getting huge balloon paymentst at the end of year cycle (ours is July, right when property taxes are due, which have also increased 50% in 10 years!! Your budget amounts are never accurate. It is the most unusable payment interface. For those where we are 90% electric homes, it’s killing us as retirees. A 1400 sq ft home with no central A/C is very high. I’ve replaced my stove and fridge, got new windows, but everything is costly. You act like you could do no negotiating. This is untrue. All the while whacking down trees, etc. to what end? Time to shop around. I liked AEP, but this is strangling.
I do pay online and more than my budget amount and am paid ahead. It allows me to put in the amount I want to pay and I always round up. Budget is $92 and I pay $100.
This is insane. AEP needs to be audited by PUCO in order to even begin to justify this continuous price gauging. They need to feel the pressure the way we customers feel the pressure. Do I buy food or keep the lights on? It’s a real concern for me.
I used Apples to Apples to get away from AEP and their ever increasing energy costs. I switched to AGP&E for my actual electrical usage (locked in for 3 years) and now every bill I get from AEP….the cost to deliver my electric and the “fees” that AEP charges is MORE than the actual KW cost that I pay to AGP&E.
I think AEP needs to pay closer attention to what THEY are paying for with their contractors and such to see what their costs are increasing.
If my math is correct, that would be an increase of .027 per KWH. Based on AEP’s SSO rate I am currently charged, the increase on my bill would be $13.50 per month for 500 KWH. I’ve learned that it doesn’t pay to shop around. You need to know the exact date you want to cancel another supplier’s fixed rate, which won’t be much less than the SSO rate. If you miss that cancellation date, based on meter read dates that vary, you are charged a variable rate causing you to lose the $$$$ you saved. The agents who come to your door for other suppliers mislead you, so beware. And it’s difficult to get rid of them without being nasty. Simply put, everyone sticks it to us.
Good luck getting blood from a stone.
My pay didn’t go up.
Where do you guys think this is coming from?
I’m surprised they don’t collude with Columbia gas to just make it a continuously unaffordability year round situation.
Our bills last year were increased ridiculously and now we are getting ANOTHER substantial increase? I am not even home during the day, very seldom have lights on in the evening when I watch TV and my bills for the last year were almost double what they were the year before. Thank God my heating, water heater and stove are gas because I could not afford it at all if it wasn’t. There should be caps on what you utilities since they are PUBLIC!
Very disappointed in your “services”.
This is terrible for retired and low income people. I guess we have to cover rising costs for CEO’s, administrati0n, health coverage increases for the industries people.
You poorer surfs can just freeze a little more, use less light etc..
I’m on a fixed income. My last 3 bills were high one was $765, $913, and $649. I had my heat on 66. It was cold in my house. I unplugged everything I could.. I heat with electric. I had a little in my saving account after playing those bills I don’t have a savings account. I can’t afford to do anything. Prices are out of check.
Wiley, average citizen here, also not happy with AEP. But if your electric bill is that high, you need to call them and they need to get out there and see what the H is cranking up your bill so much. Sounds like someone is stealing electric from you or a meter has gone mental! Call! That’s just outrageous.
Unfortunately you need electricity to survive in today’s world. It’s totally unfair for us to be going thru everything going up, bit of course our pays. How on heavens earth are we to make it? Hell I’ll never be able to retire only when I’m cremated, being that route is cheaper.
What the hell??? .. please don’t raise the prices anymore. This is ridiculous my bill is already expensive more than $200 a month.. I can’t believe it what the heck!!! 😡😡😡
I agree with everyone’s comments. Just another way for the rich to get richer, top execs earning STUPID amounts of money, while those of us struggling to make ends meet just have to continue with the harder struggle now. Prices of everything keep going up, meanwhile our salaries don’t. Just not fair!!
This is all the doings of Ohio’s corrupt politicians and House Bill 6. Larry Householder is in prison. Two crooks unalived themselves. All to bail out COAL plants in Indiana. We need change immediately. This is an outrage
So, your elec generation suppliers are raising rates to about 10cents/kWh vs the roughly 7 cents /kWh it has been this past year. BUT, your TRANSMISSION cost is going DOWN by about 1 cent per kWH and DISTRIBUTION is going down by $5?
If I use 266 kWh next month, like I did last month, then those changes mean my bill will be about about 90 cents more.
And if i used 1000 kWH, it will be about $30 more. Is that correct?
Will this ever end??What are retirees on a fixed info supposed to do?? I live on SS and I am keeping my thermostat on 67 when the weather is cold and at night I practically live in the dark by keeping only the light on in the room that I am in. I cancelled my outside light to save on electricity.
My bill is still over 200.00/month and increasing yet again! It’s ashamed that we have to keep paying these high costs on electricity instead of enjoying the comforts of home in the remaining years of our life just to make the rich richer.
Ouch! Bad timing for increases. However, the explanation on how to find whether or not this affects us or how exactly it affects us is very poorly done. The bills should be more clear on supplier and corresponding instructions should be much better written.
My electric bill was outrageous last summer😡I can’t imagine what an increase this summer will do to me and so many others. Shame on you. You’re just becoming like so many other businesses that use price gouging and blame it on something else!
This is outrageous. Does DOGE need to come in to explain to you how to cut back on overhead.
Just last year 28% increase and now this year another high increase.
We certainly get no pay increase from employer’s or social security for our elderly.
My small town is surrounded by windmills and solar panels yet none of that benefits us locally it’s shipped to other states.
Yes, I’m on a payment plan after several months of $250+ monthly charges for a household of 2 that has a gas oven, do only 2 loads of laundry a week with elec washer and dryer. No electric car and sure somehow this increase in payment are paying for some of those. We use limited lighting in all rooms. 1 television. Work from home 50 hours a week so run monitors and PC. Gaming system 20 hours a week..
.How does this equate to our large bills for electricity????
I will certainly take this up the ladder to someone that may listen.
Your bills report a price to compare in cents per kWh, the same as the PUCO shopping site. Why bury this information using different units in dollars a month for a 1000 kWh household. This requires one to perform several calculation to normalize the information.
I’m not opposed to including the household cost, but you have employed a variable average usage of 700 kWh/mo or the ubiquitous 1000 kWh/mo household. But you should always include the changes in the same unit you use for the cost to compare.
AEP should be in the rocket business then on top of that u taxes on electric. Raise raise raise raise. Live in ohio so many times my power has went out and in West Virginia too. Cable and electric prices is insane. When’s it going to end greed greed greed .let’s fire up the fire pits come over and have a hot dog. No AEP employees invited.
I’m 72, retired once & have gone back to work part time to keep up with bill increases. It’s affecting my health & I don’t that kind of raises with my income to keep up. I bought a hybrid car in 2020 to save gas. Now I pay a $100 gas tax each year with my tag renewal. Full electric cars pay $200 gas tax. I hardly drive anymore. Why aren’t all these solar farms helping with price increases. It’s not fair to create hardships on the elderly or consumers period.
I think the huge data centers are to blame for this and they should be floating the bill. Not the average user…we always end up getting the shaft to give more money to the billionaires. This is just another example of the little guy bending over again….first we had Householder screwing over the entire state, then we float the bill for a new ******* stadium, now the data centers are using all the power and we are here to rescue them. Screw this whole system….
I fully understand the need for utility companies to increase rates just like other businesses in order to pay THEIR increased costs. HOWEVER: I am 71 years old, retired but still freelancing to help ends meet. My husband, also 71, was a steelworker until the mill closed in 1982 then worked as an owner-operator until several strokes this past fall made him unable to drive the truck. So…now living only on Social Security, what do WE do to try and pay this increase? We don’t qualify for any kind of government subsidy or disability. I live within 10 miles of two coal-fired electric plants on the Ohio River which have been closed (the smoke stacks on one were demolished this past weekend). A nuclear plant stands, still operating, next to one of the closed coal-fired plants.
It’s very sad to see our area losing the means we once had to generate power while being told our rates are increasing. We also just received a water rate increase of $10 per month and nearby residents are also looking at a sewage increase.
How are we all supposed to afford these continued increases when we get little to no increase in revenue?
I don’t have the answers. I wish I did.
It’s time to invest in off grid living !!