Duke Energy Ohio Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Duke Energy Ohio reported 277,897 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 916 kWh a month on average at 16.83 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, Duke Energy Ohio ranks 19 from the lowest price.

Another 422,368 residential customers use Duke Energy Ohio for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 8.17 cents per kWh, or $76.03 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 Duke Energy Ohio has distribution equipment. That covers 23 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, Duke Energy Ohio reported an average of 108 minutes without power per customer and 0.87 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 124 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Duke Energy Ohio had about 19 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Ohio figure across its utilities was 130 minutes. One interruption lasting 124 minutes and 0.87 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 108 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. Duke Energy Ohio reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 28 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 6,193 residential net-metered systems on the Duke Energy Ohio grid in 2025, with 44.9 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.

Duke Energy Ohio is an investor-owned utility based in Ohio.

Duke Energy Ohio 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, Duke Energy Ohio is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 13.6% of the state total. At $154.05 a month, an average Duke Energy Ohio home pays about $76 a year more than the Ohio average of $147.74, and uses 42 kWh a month more. Duke Energy Ohio lists distribution equipment in 23 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 6,193 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.8 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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