Apples to Apples AEP Ohio: Reading PUCO's Chart for Your Territory

What does PUCO print in the box above the AEP Ohio offers?

The box states AEP Ohio's residential price to compare "for the generation supply portion of your bill" and the dates it covers (PUCO's AEP Ohio chart). We read 10.19¢ per kWh for October 1 – December 31, 2026.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) runs the chart on Energy Choice Ohio. Ohio Energy Savings is not PUCO.

The price to compare is the per-kWh benchmark for AEP Ohio's standard service offer (SSO), the default supply you get if you never pick a supplier (PUCO explains both). The chart prints it in dollars per kWh, so 10.19¢ per kWh reads $0.1019 per kWh there. Our pages show cents.

Under the figure, the box says the offer prices below reflect the generation portion of your bill, and that your distribution and transmission rates come through your local utility. The AEP Ohio box has one figure and no electric-heating note, which sets it apart from the FirstEnergy and AES Ohio boxes when we read it on October 1, 2026.

How do you compare AEP Ohio rates on the Apples to Apples chart?

Treat the table as a snapshot, not a ranking. PUCO's chart notice says offers load in random order, and when we reloaded AEP Ohio's chart the rows came back in a new order each time. A row's place says nothing about its quality.

The price filter takes dollars, the same unit the chart prints in, so type a decimal such as 0.1 rather than a number of cents. Leave a box empty to set no limit on that side.

Only two column headers sort the list: the supplier name and the $/kWh rate. Click the rate header to line offers up by price. Every other column needs a filter instead.

The filter panel takes a price range, a term length in months, an early termination fee range, a monthly fee range, a renewable content band, a rate type and a supplier name. An optional My Current Rate box sits at the top of it. Filter Result applies your choices and Clear Filter undoes them.

Each row is one CRES provider, short for Competitive Retail Electric Service provider, which is a supplier PUCO has certified to sell electricity. Sorting by price lines offers up by rate. A small rate still needs its fee columns checked, because a monthly fee or an early termination fee can undo a narrow gap.

What does AEP Ohio need from you to switch to a chart offer?

The Company Url, Terms of Service and Sign Up links in each row open the supplier's own pages, and Offer Details opens a note the supplier wrote. You enroll with the supplier. The supplier then sends AEP Ohio an enrollment request.

AEP Ohio's own switching page says to have your Service Delivery Identifier ready. It is a unique 17-digit number in the charges section of your bill, and it is not your account number. If you switch more than one account, each needs its own.

AEP Ohio says the supplier must notify it 12 days before the scheduled meter read date, and a switch takes effect only on a meter read date. AEP Ohio then mails a confirmation letter, which starts the window to change your mind set in Ohio Administrative Code 4901:1-10-29. Our AEP Ohio price to compare page covers that window.

After a switch, AEP Ohio still delivers your power and still bills for distribution and certain transmission costs. Your supplier may add its charges to AEP Ohio's bill or send its own statement.

How would an introductory price read against the AEP Ohio box?

Take a made-up offer in AEP Ohio territory whose intro. price column says Yes. Its Offer Details note, written by the supplier, says the first price runs three months, then a higher price applies for the rest of a 12-month fixed term. There is no monthly fee.

The first price is $0.0919 per kWh and the later price is $0.1069 per kWh, against a box of $0.1019 per kWh. The home uses 1,000 kWh a month, a made-up figure. Test each phase on its own in dollars per kWh, then add the two.

The first three months come in $30.00 less than the default would, and the last nine come in $45.00 more. Over the whole term the offer costs $15.00 more than the default would, if the box never changed. A low first price can lose once you count every month. If the $/kWh column shows only one of the two prices, read the Offer Details note for the other.

Staying on AEP Ohio's default is the better call when every fixed offer on the chart sits above the box, when a monthly fee or an early termination fee erases the gap, or when you may move before a term ends. You can leave an offer early, but read its fee first.

Where do you go next after reading the AEP Ohio chart?

Our AEP Ohio price to compare page covers where the figure sits on your bill and when it resets. AEP Ohio electricity price gives the territory picture, and AEP Ohio historical rates lists past figures.

PUCO builds the same chart for each of the six electric territories, and Apples to Apples electric links them all. If your city or county buys power for residents as a group, which Ohio law calls governmental aggregation, check your bill before you shop.

For what each column means, read our Apples to Apples Ohio guide, and for who can shop at all, read Ohio energy choice.