Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 14599. In 2024 it served 9,176 bundled residential customers in Ohio (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 17.67 cents per kWh: $21 million of residential revenue divided by 119,032 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc's 2024 average prices were 14.60 cents for commercial customers (494 accounts) and 7.89 cents for industrial customers (8 accounts). Industrial customers paid 9.78 cents less per kWh than households, a 55% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Ohio, Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc ranked number 29 of 37 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (9,176) and accounted for 0.23% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 15.99 cents per kWh, so Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc's customers paid 1.68 cents above the Ohio average (+10.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Ohio is 19.19 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc in 5 Ohio counties: Allen, Defiance, Paulding, Putnam, and Van Wert. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Indiana (3,851 residential customers at 13.96 cents). On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 17.83 cents per kWh for Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc in Ohio across 9,153 residential customers, 0.16 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Ohio by service-territory centroid are Midwest Electric, Inc (OH) (28.7 miles away, 15.27 cents), City of Celina (OH) (31.3 miles away, 9.12 cents), City of Auburn (IN) (36.4 miles away, 8.52 cents), City of Bluffton (IN) (38.5 miles away, 10.38 cents), and The Toledo Edison Co (49.1 miles away, 16.64 cents).