City of Cleveland, OH Rates, Bills and Service Area in 2025

City of Cleveland reported 64,905 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 511 kWh a month on average at 16.36 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, City of Cleveland ranks 14 from the lowest 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 City of Cleveland has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county 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, City of Cleveland reported an average of 191 minutes without power per customer and 0.65 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 296 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Cleveland had about 64 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Ohio figure across its utilities was 130 minutes. One interruption lasting 296 minutes and 0.65 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 191 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. City of Cleveland 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 182 residential net-metered systems on the City of Cleveland grid in 2025, with 2.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Cleveland is a municipal utility based in Ohio.

City of Cleveland operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Ohio has 35 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Cleveland is 8th by size and serves about 1.3% of the state's homes. City of Cleveland lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 182 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.8 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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