CenterPoint Ohio Gas Rates: The Default Rate, Your Bill and Your Choices

Which CenterPoint Ohio gas rates apply if you never shopped?

CenterPoint Energy Ohio's default rate is the SCO. The block below shows the figure we hold, its period and where it comes from, and PUCO's chart is the source of record.

CenterPoint's own choice page carries a table of historical and current SCO rates. It says an auction picks the SCO suppliers each year, and that all SCO supplier prices are exactly the same.

CenterPoint says the SCO is designed as "a safety net to help ensure that natural gas suppliers are available". If you choose no supplier, you are signed up to an SCO supplier automatically and charged the standard rate. Because most of that rate follows the market price, CenterPoint says an SCO customer receives a variable rate.

Our CenterPoint SCO rate page tracks the number and when it resets. Apples to Apples CenterPoint Ohio shows how to read PUCO's chart, and the natural gas rates guide compares all four utilities.

How have CenterPoint Ohio gas rates moved over the past year?

Gas prices swing with the market, which PUCO says can change dramatically from one month to the next (PUCO's SCO guide). In the last twelve months we hold for CenterPoint, the lowest default was $0.4388 per Ccf (May 2026) and the highest was $1.0182 per Ccf (February 2026).

Against a year earlier, today's default is down 6.5% from $0.520 per Ccf (October 2025), the same period a year earlier.

Our CenterPoint Energy Ohio rate history page has the full series, and PUCO's historical chart is the source. Past rates do not predict the next period, and we give no forecast.

What does CenterPoint's delivery charge cover, and what does its SCO price leave out?

CenterPoint's delivery charge covers its pipes, meter reading and emergency response, and its SCO price excludes taxes. Its monthly gas bill has two parts. The first is the gas, sold to you by an SCO supplier or by a certified Choice supplier. The second is the delivery charge, and CenterPoint warns that bill format and line item names may vary.

Under Ohio Administrative Code 4901:1-13-11, every bill shows the gas rate per Mcf or Ccf. A residential bill must also say it "may be useful to compare supplier offers with the standard choice offer (SCO) rate".

CenterPoint says a retail price adjustment (RPA) is a supplier-related charge that may appear on your bill, and that it does not profit from the charge itself. PUCO's gas bill guide says gas bought under an SCO program is subject to sales or use tax. Add the tax when you total a bill.

How does energy choice work for CenterPoint gas customers?

CenterPoint says you can choose a certified Choice supplier or take gas from an SCO supplier, and that it does not endorse any particular supplier or offer. When you are ready to switch, you contact the supplier directly. The supplier will ask for the CenterPoint account number on your latest bill.

CenterPoint says it still delivers the gas, keeps its pipes and responds to emergencies whichever supplier you pick. It adds that supplier rates are generally not set by PUCO, so prices move with the market, the type of plan and whether the rate is fixed or variable. Some customer-owned piping and appliance issues may be yours to fix.

A city or county may also run a gas aggregation program under Ohio Revised Code 4929.26. Our Ohio energy choice guide explains how those programs fit in.

Staying on the SCO can be the better choice when every fixed offer on PUCO's chart for CenterPoint Energy Ohio sits above recent default periods, when a monthly fee or an early termination fee wipes out the gap, or when you may move soon. An early termination fee belongs to a supplier contract, not to the default. The risk to weigh on a fixed offer is a rate that turns variable once its term ends. Our guide to staying on the default covers the trade-off.

What happens when a CenterPoint supplier contract ends?

At CenterPoint, you use an SCO supplier again by canceling your Choice supplier contract or letting it expire, and CenterPoint then assigns you to one of the SCO suppliers.

Your supplier must send you a written notice forty-five to ninety days before a residential contract ends. If the contract does not renew by itself, that notice must say which service you will default to (Ohio Administrative Code 4901:1-29-10). Where it applies, a contract must also say that a customer who returns to the utility on their own may pay a price other than its tariff rate (Ohio Administrative Code 4901:1-29-11). Our natural gas rates guide explains how to return to the default.

Where can you read more about CenterPoint Energy Ohio's gas rates?

Our Ohio energy choice guide explains the program across the state. The other gas utilities have their own pages: Columbia gas of Ohio rates, Enbridge gas Ohio and Duke Energy Ohio gas rates, plus the Ohio gas rates overview.