Electric company in Dayton, Ohio

Which electric company serves Dayton, Ohio?

In Dayton, AES Ohio is the utility behind your meter. It owns the poles and wires and fixes outages. The City of Dayton's aggregation page says AES Ohio keeps delivering electricity to your home whichever supplier you buy from.

Our reference data counts 43 ZIP codes with a Dayton mailing address, mostly in Montgomery County and with two in Greene County, and it gives them all to AES Ohio by county.

Suppliers that sell electricity in competition with the utility are CRES providers, short for Competitive Retail Electric Service providers. A switch changes your supply price only, because AES Ohio still delivers. See the AES Ohio rates page.

What are electric rates in Dayton, Ohio?

Customers with no supplier pay AES Ohio's default supply rate, the price to compare. We read 10.86¢ per kWh from PUCO's chart on September 30, 2026. It covers June 1, 2026 – May 31, 2027, so the next one starts June 1, 2027.

The rate is up 14.9% from 9.45¢ per kWh (June 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026), the same period a year earlier.

This rate is the Standard Service Offer (SSO), the supply service AES Ohio must provide. It leaves out delivery. The price to compare is printed on your bill under OAC 4901:1-10-22. The AES Ohio price to compare page shows where.

Which ZIP codes does Dayton cover?

From 45401 to 45490, 43 ZIP codes carry Dayton as the mailing city. The table below groups them by prefix.

Because ZIP codes track mail routes and not city limits, the utility on your bill is the check. Try 45401 to see a ZIP page.

Does Dayton have an electric aggregation program?

Aggregation is group buying by a community. Under Ohio Revised Code 4928.20, a city may sign residents up automatically only after its voters approve, and each household gets a notice and can opt out.

Dayton's program is City of Dayton Electric Power Aggregation, run by Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council (SOPEC). Our registry, researched September 9, 2026 at high confidence, lists AEP Energy as the supplier at a fixed rate of 10.691¢ per kWh.

The registry records the program's contract term as June 2026 to May 2027. 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 termination fee; customers may leave the aggregation program at no cost (City of Dayton)”.

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

People with their own supplier contract must return the opt-out notice to stay with their supplier, says PUCO (what is aggregation). Check with the program's supplier and your own before you sign or return anything. See also the Dayton program page, aggregation in Ohio and the aggregation lookup.

Which gas company serves Dayton?

CenterPoint Energy Ohio is the gas utility our sources name for Dayton. CenterPoint's filed list of locations served names Dayton. The City of Dayton's emergency page lists CenterPoint Energy as the contact for natural gas odors.

PUCO's county map shows CenterPoint as the only one of Ohio's four large gas utilities labeled in Montgomery County, with smaller gas operators also labeled there. We have not been able to confirm whether any other gas utility serves an address in Dayton, so the name on your gas bill is the answer. 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).

When we read CenterPoint's update on October 1, 2026, it said it agreed in October 2025 to sell its Ohio gas business to National Fuel and estimated the sale would be final on October 1, 2026. It said nothing changes for you until then, and your account moves to National Fuel automatically, with nothing you need to do.

For a gas default, CenterPoint Energy Ohio uses the Standard Choice Offer (SCO). Our CenterPoint Energy Ohio Apples to Apples page links to PUCO's chart, the CenterPoint Energy Ohio price to compare page shows the figure, and natural gas rates in Ohio compares the utilities.

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

In Dayton your electric supply comes from one of three places. They are AES Ohio's default rate, the City of Dayton Electric Power Aggregation 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 put is reasonable when each fixed offer costs more than the price to compare, or when a monthly fee or an early termination fee (ETF), a charge for leaving a contract early, would cancel the gap. See when staying put is the better choice.

Our AES Ohio Apples to Apples guide covers offers for AES Ohio. Hold the City of Dayton Electric Power Aggregation rate above against the price to compare. Your notice lists any fee.

What other Ohio cities can you compare with Dayton?

No other city page shares a utility with Dayton, so these are the closest pages we have.