Electric companies in Columbus, Ohio

Which electric companies in Columbus, Ohio serve your home?

Your electric utility owns the poles and wires, reads your meter and fixes outages. In Columbus that utility is AEP Ohio. PUCO's electric territory map places the center of Columbus in AEP Ohio's territory. PUCO's map shows only the utilities it certifies, so a city-owned or cooperative system would not appear on it, and the name on your bill is the final word.

Our ZIP reference data lists 45 ZIP codes with a Columbus mailing address, all in Franklin County. It assigns them to AEP Ohio by county.

A supplier, which Ohio calls a CRES provider (Competitive Retail Electric Service provider), sets your supply price. AEP Ohio still delivers the power. See the AEP Ohio rates page.

What is the default electric rate in Columbus?

AEP Ohio's price to compare is the default supply rate for customers who have not chosen a supplier. PUCO's chart lists 10.19¢ per kWh, read October 5, 2026. The current period runs October 1 – December 31, 2026, so the next one starts January 1, 2027.

The rate is up 4% from 9.80¢ per kWh (October 1 – December 31, 2025), the same period a year earlier.

The default comes from the Standard Service Offer (SSO), the supply service AEP Ohio must offer, and it covers supply only. Your bill prints it as the price to compare (OAC 4901:1-10-22). The AEP Ohio price to compare page shows where.

What is the average electric bill in Columbus, Ohio?

We do not publish a Columbus average, because bills vary with usage and with charges beyond supply. For an example household, not a Columbus average, 750 kWh in a month costs about $76.43 for supply at AEP Ohio's 10.19¢ per kWh default, with delivery charges on top. For a statewide figure and where it comes from, see the average electric bill in Ohio.

Which ZIP codes does Columbus cover?

The 45 ZIP codes with a Columbus mailing address run from 43085 to 43291, and the table groups them by their first three digits.

A ZIP code follows mail routes, not city limits, so check the utility name on your bill. To start from your own ZIP code, try 43085.

Does Columbus have an electric aggregation program?

Aggregation means a city, township or county buys electricity for its residents as a group. Under Ohio Revised Code 4928.20, a community may enroll homes automatically only after its voters approve it, and each household gets a notice and a chance to opt out.

Columbus's program is Clean Energy Columbus. Our registry, researched September 9, 2026 at high confidence, lists AEP Energy as the supplier at a fixed rate of 10.01¢ per kWh.

The registry records the program's contract term as June 2021 to May 2034. A program can reset its rate inside that term, so your latest notice shows how long the rate above lasts. The registry's exit-fee note reads “No fees or penalties to opt out at any time (Clean Energy Columbus program page)”.

Our registry records no county-wide program for Franklin County.

To keep a supplier you chose, PUCO says to return the opt-out notice (what is aggregation). Ask the program's supplier and your own supplier how your account will be handled before you sign or return anything. See also the Columbus program page, aggregation in Ohio and the aggregation lookup.

Which gas company serves Columbus?

Columbia Gas of Ohio is the gas utility our sources name for Columbus. Columbia Gas of Ohio's own pipeline-project pages list work under a Columbus heading. The filed lists of communities from Enbridge, CenterPoint and Duke do not include Columbus.

PUCO's county map shows Columbia as the only large gas utility in Franklin County, with smaller gas operators also labeled there. No source we read says whether any of them serves a Columbus address, or where the lines fall inside the city. None of these sources maps gas service to streets or ZIP codes.

We read these sources on October 1, 2026. Energy Choice Ohio says to find your gas provider on your billing statement (gas start page).

Columbia Gas of Ohio's default gas rate is called the Standard Choice Offer (SCO). Open PUCO's chart through our Columbia Gas of Ohio Apples to Apples page, see the Columbia Gas of Ohio price to compare, or read natural gas rates in Ohio.

Default rate, city program or supplier: which applies to you in Columbus?

In Columbus your electric supply comes from one of three places. They are AEP Ohio's default rate, the Clean Energy Columbus program if it enrolled you, or an offer from a supplier you pick. PUCO says people on PIPP Plus or under their own supplier contract are not eligible for aggregation (what is aggregation).

Staying on the default can make sense when every fixed offer is above the price to compare, or when a monthly fee or an early termination fee (ETF), the charge for leaving a contract early, would erase the gap. See when staying put is the better choice.

Read our AEP Ohio Apples to Apples guide to compare offers for AEP Ohio. Hold the Clean Energy Columbus rate above against the price to compare. Your notice lists any fee.

What other Ohio cities can you compare with Columbus?

AEP Ohio also delivers power in Canton and Columbia Gas of Ohio also delivers gas in Toledo, according to our sources, so those pages come first.