AES Ohio (Dayton Power and Light) Electric Rates and Bills

AES Ohio (Dayton Power and Light) reported 142,651 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 981 kWh a month on average at 16.12 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 29 Ohio utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Dayton Power and Light ranks 12 from the lowest price.

Another 326,666 residential customers use Dayton Power and Light for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 7.07 cents per kWh, or $69.27 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Dayton Power and Light has distribution equipment. That covers 24 counties in Ohio. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Dayton Power and Light reported an average of 97 minutes without power per customer and 0.75 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 129 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Dayton Power and Light had about 31 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Ohio figure across its utilities was 130 minutes. One interruption lasting 129 minutes and 0.75 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 97 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Dayton Power and Light does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 474 residential net-metered systems on the Dayton Power and Light grid in 2025, with 3.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Ohio, that review is done by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Dayton Power and Light is an investor-owned utility based in Ohio.

Dayton Power and Light operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 35 utilities listed for Ohio, Dayton Power and Light is the 5th largest by homes, at roughly 9.1% of the state total. Its price of 16.12 cents per kWh is 0.36 cents below the median of 5 other investor-owned utilities in Ohio (16.49 cents). At $158.08 a month, an average Dayton Power and Light home pays about $124 a year more than the Ohio average of $147.74, and uses 107 kWh a month more. Dayton Power and Light lists distribution equipment in 24 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 474 of its residential customers use net metering, or 1.0 per 1,000 homes, against 6.8 for Ohio as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Ohio with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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