How many electric cooperatives are in Ohio?

25 electric cooperatives reported bundled retail electricity sales to customers in Ohio in 2024, according to EIA. The largest is South Central Power Company, with 127,851 customers.

How many municipal and public power utilities are in Ohio?

85 — 85 municipal utilities — reported bundled retail sales in Ohio in 2024. The largest is City of Cleveland, with 73,666 customers.

How do public power utilities and co-ops in Ohio buy?

Municipal utilities and public utility districts are local government entities, so they generally follow Ohio's public procurement laws, with purchases approved by a city council or utility board. Electric co-ops are private, member-owned nonprofits that set their own purchasing policies, though projects financed through USDA's Rural Utilities Service follow its rules. See how utilities buy.

Where does this data come from?

From the U.S. Energy Information Administration's table "2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total" (Table 10), based on forms EIA-861 and EIA-861S. It counts customers who buy both electricity and delivery from the utility.

Ohio Public Power & Electric Co-ops: Full List

Key takeaways

110 community-owned utilities: 85 municipal utilities and 25 electric cooperatives reported bundled retail sales in Ohio in 2024.
Together they served 805,219 of the state's 2,378,044 bundled retail customers (34%); 7 investor-owned utilities served most of the rest.
The largest public power utility is City of Cleveland, with 73,666 customers.
The largest electric co-op is South Central Power Company, with 127,851 customers.

Every public power utility and co-op in Ohio

Ranked by bundled retail customers in 2024, with retail sales in megawatt-hours and average price in cents per kilowatt-hour. Names are as EIA abbreviates them. Filter by type or search.

Showing all 110 utilities

#	Utility	Type	Customers	Sales, MWh	Avg. price
1	South Central Power Company	Cooperative	127,851	2,682,570	13.47¢
2	City of Cleveland	Municipal	73,666	1,545,537	12.51¢
3	City of Hamilton	Municipal	29,891	688,318	11.84¢
4	Licking Rural Electric Inc	Cooperative	27,568	425,340	16.36¢
5	City of Cuyahoga Falls	Municipal	26,783	391,720	12.38¢
6	City of Columbus	Municipal	19,521	856,871	10.87¢
7	Consolidated Cooperative	Cooperative	19,272	430,235	15.07¢
8	Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	18,702	233,508	20.00¢
9	City of Westerville	Municipal	17,966	450,043	12.36¢
10	Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	17,947	369,138	14.66¢
11	Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	17,407	677,130	11.99¢
12	Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Inc	Cooperative	17,178	246,273	17.19¢
13	Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc	Cooperative	16,831	320,941	14.92¢
14	City of Bowling Green	Municipal	14,850	518,193	12.02¢
15	City of Wadsworth	Municipal	13,813	273,649	10.45¢
16	Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	13,640	352,478	14.55¢
17	City of Niles	Municipal	12,815	236,942	8.39¢
18	City of Painesville	Municipal	12,614	218,529	11.32¢
19	Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	12,275	502,998	12.40¢
20	Carroll Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	11,916	151,920	17.63¢
21	Butler Rural Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	11,845	210,463	17.64¢
22	Midwest Electric, Inc	Cooperative	11,193	294,114	13.54¢
23	City of Piqua	Municipal	10,943	281,641	11.00¢
24	Washington Electric Coop	Cooperative	10,568	110,338	20.35¢
25	City of Lebanon	Municipal	9,824	337,385	8.82¢
26	North Central Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	9,745	220,852	15.11¢
27	Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	9,678	248,656	14.01¢
28	Firelands Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	9,272	147,071	16.32¢
29	Frontier Power Company	Cooperative	9,188	112,872	17.00¢
30	City of Celina	Municipal	8,468	256,162	9.17¢
31	Mid-Ohio Energy Coop, Inc	Cooperative	8,197	164,936	15.70¢
32	Adams Rural Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	7,748	114,312	16.64¢
33	City of Orrville	Municipal	7,114	299,090	10.17¢
34	City of Hudson	Municipal	7,005	167,808	13.13¢
35	City of Dover	Municipal	6,893	190,599	13.26¢
36	City of Amherst	Municipal	6,429	110,471	11.73¢
37	City of Napoleon	Municipal	6,087	143,006	11.48¢
38	North Western Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	6,061	130,381	14.70¢
39	City of Galion	Municipal	5,988	102,968	11.96¢
40	City of Bryan	Municipal	5,814	160,479	10.75¢
41	City of Wapakoneta	Municipal	5,578	147,725	12.10¢
42	City of Tipp City	Municipal	5,335	177,353	9.93¢
43	City of Shelby	Municipal	5,326	87,787	11.56¢
44	Darke Rural Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	5,240	133,104	14.27¢
45	Logan County Coop Power & Light	Cooperative	4,789	181,101	12.33¢
46	Tricounty Rural Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	4,467	71,551	16.03¢
47	City of St Marys	Municipal	4,263	172,129	11.30¢
48	City of Hubbard	Municipal	4,244	46,732	14.45¢
49	City of Jackson	Municipal	4,196	153,168	13.35¢
50	City of Columbiana	Municipal	4,185	71,052	10.90¢
51	Clyde Light & Power	Municipal	3,132	204,458	8.78¢
52	City of Oberlin	Municipal	3,104	97,378	14.61¢
53	City of St Clairsville	Municipal	3,026	44,709	16.14¢
54	Village of Wellington	Municipal	2,772	63,266	8.24¢
55	City of Newton Falls	Municipal	2,577	42,330	14.67¢
56	Village of Montpelier	Municipal	2,371	60,309	11.49¢
57	Village of Yellow Springs	Municipal	2,235	35,589	13.80¢
58	Seville Board of Public Affairs	Municipal	2,229	72,737	9.79¢
59	Village of Blanchester	Municipal	2,226	52,603	13.81¢
60	Village of Georgetown	Municipal	2,158	41,068	10.50¢
61	Village of Versailles	Municipal	1,969	76,049	12.36¢
62	Village of Carey	Municipal	1,960	93,144	10.08¢
63	Village of Lodi	Municipal	1,908	41,172	9.49¢
64	Village of New Bremen	Municipal	1,651	77,649	9.86¢
65	Village of Bethel	Municipal	1,647	24,422	10.56¢
66	City of Arcanum	Municipal	1,632	20,936	9.97¢
67	Village of Oak Harbor	Municipal	1,552	20,701	14.97¢
68	Village of Minster	Municipal	1,551	135,616	9.94¢
69	City of Woodsfield	Municipal	1,518	22,386	11.82¢
70	Village of Grafton	Municipal	1,338	23,882	13.66¢
71	Village of Genoa	Municipal	1,150	11,473	15.78¢
72	Village of Edgerton	Municipal	1,126	22,671	13.11¢
73	Midwest Energy Cooperative	Cooperative	1,061	16,209	18.79¢
74	Village of Woodville	Municipal	1,052	11,994	13.11¢
75	Village of Ripley	Municipal	1,023	14,126	11.91¢
76	Village of Deshler	Municipal	982	14,197	17.74¢
77	Village of Elmore	Municipal	964	13,592	12.35¢
78	Village of Brewster	Municipal	960	52,528	9.06¢
79	Village of Glouster	Municipal	958	10,384	13.40¢
80	Village of Lakeview	Municipal	923	9,403	15.00¢
81	Village of Monroeville	Municipal	869	44,759	9.37¢
82	Village of Pioneer	Municipal	853	31,452	11.63¢
83	Village of Beach City	Municipal	844	8,417	16.88¢
84	Village of Plymouth	Municipal	836	10,660	15.66¢
85	Village of Jackson Center	Municipal	794	24,166	8.60¢
86	Prospect Corporation	Municipal	748	9,493	12.14¢
87	Village of Greenwich	Municipal	740	10,681	16.74¢
88	Village of Milan	Municipal	739	11,254	13.65¢
89	Village of Pemberville	Municipal	730	10,394	14.05¢
90	Village of Haskins	Municipal	555	6,115	15.34¢
91	Village of Bradner	Municipal	550	5,651	14.39¢
92	Village of Marshallville	Municipal	506	6,414	12.80¢
93	Village of Sycamore	Municipal	506	17,691	9.86¢
94	Village of New Knoxville	Municipal	480	10,822	16.08¢
95	Village of Waynesfield	Municipal	472	7,547	13.10¢
96	Village of Ohio City	Municipal	407	4,545	14.57¢
97	Village of Lucas	Municipal	358	4,025	11.75¢
98	City of Mendon	Municipal	330	4,227	14.45¢
99	Village of Shiloh	Municipal	320	4,305	15.35¢
100	Village of Republic	Municipal	314	3,252	17.07¢
101	Village of Bloomdale	Municipal	312	3,020	16.82¢
102	Village of Arcadia	Municipal	305	4,741	14.34¢
103	Village of Eldorado	Municipal	276	3,917	11.74¢
104	Village of Cygnet	Municipal	271	2,795	13.81¢
105	Village of Hamersville	Municipal	268	5,921	9.10¢
106	Village of Tontogany	Municipal	244	3,538	14.21¢
107	South Vienna Corporation	Municipal	242	5,153	12.16¢
108	Village of Wharton	Municipal	177	1,905	13.56¢
109	City of Custar	Municipal	121	2,593	11.69¢
110	Village of Obetz	Municipal	108	62,186	11.34¢

Public power vs. co-ops in Ohio

Public power utilities — municipal utilities, public utility districts and state-owned utilities — are owned by the communities they serve and governed by a city council or elected board. They buy much like local governments: through public bids, board approvals and published budgets.
Electric cooperatives are private, not-for-profit utilities owned by their members, who elect the board. Most buy power from a generation and transmission (G&T) co-op and make purchasing decisions through their own policies, often faster than public agencies.

Both publish their plans: watch board and council agendas, budgets, capital improvement plans and rate filings. Our utility funding tracker and rate case & IRP tracker show where the money is coming from.

Selling to Ohio utilities

Start with the right person. Line, engineering, metering, IT and member-services managers usually define the need; the general manager or CEO and the board approve large purchases.
Use the networks. State public power and cooperative associations, joint action agencies and G&T co-ops shape purchasing and share vendor experiences.
Expect small teams. Many of the utilities on this list have only a handful of staff, so phone outreach and a clear reason to talk matter.

Read our guide to how public power, co-ops and water utilities buy, or see the largest public power utilities and largest electric co-ops nationally.

About this data

Source. EIA's "2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total" (Table 10), from forms EIA-861 and EIA-861S. Average price is EIA's revenue divided by sales.
Bundled customers only. The table counts customers who buy both energy and delivery from the utility, so it excludes distribution-only utilities and customers who buy energy from another supplier in retail-choice areas.
Community-owned utilities only. This page lists municipal, public utility district, state-owned and cooperative utilities. Investor-owned and federal utilities are left out.

Sources

U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total (Table 10): eia.gov

Public power utilities and electric co-ops in Ohio.