We know there’s been a lot of chatter about changes to your electric bill. This is happening because of a few separate things going on with utility bill rates. As electric costs change, AEP Ohio’s priority remains being transparent with our customers while keeping bills fair, predictable and easy to understand.
We’re working hard to push for changes in this process so things are clearer for you and everyone else we serve. Ultimately, the impact to your electric bill each month continues to depend heavily on how much electricity you use and where you get your electric generation supply from.
What Goes Into Your Bill
Generation, transmission and distribution are the three primary components of an electric bill. AEP Ohio is a distribution utility, but a customer’s AEP Ohio bill includes all three parts. With approval from state regulators, all three components change regularly because of the way Ohio’s electric regulations are structured.
- Generation charges include the cost to generate electricity — power plants, solar farms, etc.
- Transmission charges cover the costs of the high-voltage lines that move electricity from generation sources to communities.
- Distribution charges cover the local poles and wires in communities.
Ohioans can choose to receive their generation supply from a Competitive Retail Electric Service (CRES) provider or remain on AEP Ohio’s Standard Service Offer (SSO) rate, where generation charges are passed through, dollar for dollar, with no markup.
As of March 23, our records indicate that you receive the generation portion of your bill from a CRES provider or live in a community that uses a CRES provider through governmental aggregation. Any changes to this part of your bill are not related to AEP Ohio.
Transmission and Distribution Rate Changes
All residential customers will experience an increase beginning with the April billing cycle due to the standard annual update to transmission rates under the FERC- and PUCO-approved formula. Beginning in April, the average residential AEP Ohio customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) a month will see the following changes, regardless of whether they shop for their generation supply or are on the SSO rate:
- Transmission costs increasing by about $7.90.
- Distribution costs decreasing by about $0.52.
The net impact is an increase of approximately $7.38 per month for the average AEP Ohio customer using a CRES provider. It’s important to note that this increase is separate from any rate changes from your CRES provider, which AEP Ohio has no control over, that may cause your bill to increase or decrease by a different amount.
Additionally, these changes are separate from AEP Ohio’s base distribution rate case under review by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO). That case proposes an initial overall decrease of $1.22 per month for the distribution portion of AEP Ohio customers’ bills.
Investing in the Grid
AEP Ohio continues to invest in new and modernized transmission infrastructure to ensure the reliability and resilience of the electric grid. Many existing high-voltage transmission facilities were built decades ago and require investments to stay in service. These investments are critical to:
- Strengthening system reliability.
- Reducing the risk of outages.
- Protecting the grid.
- Supporting economic growth.
You Can Shop for Generation
Customers can visit EnergyChoice.Ohio.gov to compare CRES providers and their rates to AEP Ohio’s SSO rate.
We encourage you to take advantage of our bill assistance tool by completing a quick, 2-minute survey to see which programs you qualify for — there are options available for everyone.
My bill is significantly higher in the last 12 months than the previous r ye as rs I’ve lived in this house.
As expected.. cha ching!
Always increases! Looks like I will have to shop around!
Oh cool! Another rate hike. I guess you guys know that we all get annual raises and you want your hands in our pockets.
Rates keep increasing yet your service does not improve. Outages and inconveniences still occur. I have to believe these increases do not pay for infrastructure upgrades but for more bloated salaries.
From a retiree on a fixed income, thanks for nothing.
Stop increasing fixed costs to customers.
You are ripping up off
Useless…the rates continue to climb
Why not lower rates? Puco seems to not care how much profit you make off of ohioans . These increases while giving data centers a free ride will hopefully end up a lawsuits to help ohioans not drain us.
I seem to remember that deregulation was to benefit the consumer – wrong?? I have been using other suppliers for quite a few years for better rates and I find the usually 60%+ of my monthly bill are the AEP charges and now will be even more? We
have lived in this home for more than 55 years and you still charge me $10 per month for a “costumer/meter”every month – do the math ! It is not that I can afford to pay my monthly charges it a point for the people that can’t and don’t know about monthly budgeting- I feel sorry for them every Summer!
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Yes I have noticed an increase in my bills. It was brought to my notice about the rate height and I changed my service to another supplier.
I can’t wait until free energy comes in.
Do not want to fund AI centers. They should take care of own electricity needs. I do not care if we have AI.
If AEP would bring their kwh rate down to at least match AEP Energy, I would choose AEP who delivers my electricity. Howerver I am retired and on a fixed income, too much to get finacial assistance. Every company in America is killing the middle class.
I’m being fed up with these increases. When is it going to stop? My bill is out of control compared to previous years, even though I use less. Charge the companies that are requiring new data centers and using massive amounts of electric causing early and excessive infrastructure upgrades to be needed.
This is ridiculous. Stop increasing our bills. This is ruining our communities. CARE ABOUT US PEOPLE STOP RAISING RATES!!!!!!
This is getting out hand .
This hurts senior citizens and low income families.
This is an issue that needs examining again
Thanks utilities commissioner for not looking out for us
So how much increase is the CEO of Aep gonna get from all these increases on our electric bills? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Money-hungry, greedy, fat pigs that leech off society. I hope this company rots.
We’re all sick of all the bogus ass hikes. Build those data centers though. Puco is a joke and so are
Solar here I come
Why do we even have the puco. There not for the people anymore it’s all about making these big companies more richer. It’s a down right shame.
Reporting fraud
“Cam”- Arrived at my residence claiming to be from AEP and wanting me to send him and email of my statement/usage
This was done during my work hours
Thanks for letting us know, Joey. We’re not ever going to show up at your door and demand to see a copy of your bill. We’ve shared your message with our customer team and they may reach out to you for more information. (We’ve also deleted your address here before publishing.)
Put in writing and in the mail
Trying to keep costs as cheap as possible
Screw the retried on fixed income.
OK, now explain why the bills are going up. Funny how our residential electric costs increased when the data centers started to built.
So when you ask for feedback, you don’t want anything critical posted? Why do I have to pay for all the new transmission lines for your new customers? The only reason these transmission/distribution charges could be going up this much over the last few years is infrastructure build-out. Housing developments and new industry are popping up all over your service area, and I’m paying you a lot more so you can get new customers. Seems like a bad deal for ME!
I can not agree with the increase in the cost of electricity.With the cost of utilities, house payments, and food,everyone is struggling to make ends meet. There seems to be no end in sight. Just don’t know how people will make it.
I had a gentleman also appear at my door on 3/262026. He had a “copy” of my bill and wanted me to print off my copy to verify what he had. I refused to do so!
You did the right thing, Bonnie! AEP Ohio will never come to your door and ask to see your bill.
Clear as mud.
Some call it greed.
I call it typical, get it while you can bs
Why should existing customers pay for your infrastructure? You have plenty enough to pay for it and eventually it will not only pay for itself , but will make AEP even more money. Y’all are greedy IMO.