NOPEC Electric Rates by ZIP Code: Find Your Aggregation Program

How do you find NOPEC electric rates by ZIP code?

Check that your community is on NOPEC's member list and which utility delivers your power (the price to compare lookup shows it), then read NOPEC's price for that utility. For NOPEC and other programs in our registry, type a ZIP code, a city, village or township name, or a county below.

A verified result shows up to six facts.

• The supplier.
• The rate, in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), the unit your meter counts.
• The term, which is the dates the contract runs.
• The opt-out window, if the program publishes one.
• What the program says about leaving.
• Where to send an opt-out.

The registry lists programs for 167 places in 51 counties. 53 of them have enough evidence for us to show those facts. One of them records a term that has ended, and the result says so instead of showing that rate as current. For any other row, or any fact we lack, the result says "We have not verified this yet" and links to the community's own page when we have one.

Every result shows the date we researched that row, and our methodology explains the grades.

Why does a ZIP code match both a town and a county?

A community runs an aggregation program, not a ZIP code. That community can be a city, village, township or county, and a ZIP code can cross those lines.

The lookup matches the ZIP code's mailing city by name, then adds the county's own program if we have one. Each result says which kind of match it is. A ZIP code's mailing city can differ from the community you live in, so check the other places the result lists.

Our registry has 4 rows run by NOPEC, the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, so a NOPEC community may be missing here. A program's rate covers supply only, and your utility still bills delivery.

What should you do after the lookup finds your program?

Return the opt-out card or notice your community mails you before its deadline, which the rule sets at least 21 days after the postmark. In an opt-out program, your community enrolls you automatically unless you do.

PUCO's electric Do Not Aggregate list keeps you out of future opt-out programs. PUCO says it does not remove you from one you are already in, and the rule adds that the program must remove you at your next opt-out opportunity. Our Ohio electric aggregation guide covers opt-out rules in depth.

Staying in a program can be reasonable when its rate sits below your utility's price to compare and leaving carries no fee. A monthly fee or an early termination fee (ETF) can erase a gap, so compare totals over the full term. The electric bill calculator turns any rate into a monthly supply figure, and the Apples to Apples chart lists offers side by side.

What happens if you sign with a supplier while a program covers you?

PUCO says that if you do not opt out and then choose a new supplier, you remain a customer of the program. It also says that if you recently switched, you should return the program's opt-out notice before its deadline if you do not want to be switched to the program's supplier. Before you sign with a supplier, ask that supplier how your account will be handled, and check any contract for an ETF. The program's notice has a deadline, so do not wait on that answer to return it.

Which places and programs does the registry leave out?

It lists electric programs only. Ohio law also lets communities aggregate natural gas (Ohio Revised Code 4929.26), and this lookup does not cover those.

It is a partial list, so a place with no match may still have a program, though not every community has one. Ask your city, village or township office, or read PUCO's page on aggregation, which links its map of aggregators.

PUCO says customers on PIPP Plus (the Percentage of Income Payment Plan) and customers under their own supplier contract are not eligible. Homes served by a municipal electric utility or an electric cooperative are outside every program, because Ohio Revised Code 4928.20 does not allow a community to aggregate them.

Programs re-bid and terms end, so a program can change after the date we researched it. Check that date and the program's own page before you act. Our Ohio energy choice guide covers the wider picture.