South Central Power Company Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

South Central Power Company is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 18085. In 2024 it served 117,469 bundled residential customers in Ohio, and its average realised residential price was 14.87 cents per kWh: $225 million of residential revenue divided by 1.51 million MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, South Central Power Company's 2024 average prices were 13.58 cents for commercial customers (10,093 accounts) and 10.76 cents for industrial customers (289 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.11 cents less per kWh than households, a 28% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Ohio, South Central Power Company ranked number 7 of 37 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (117,469) and accounted for 2.90% 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 South Central Power Company's customers paid 1.12 cents below the Ohio average (-7.0%). 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 South Central Power Company in 24 Ohio counties: Adams, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont, Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Highland, and Hocking, and 12 more. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported transmission and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 15.39 cents per kWh for South Central Power Company in Ohio across 118,458 residential customers, 0.52 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 City of Columbus (OH) (33.8 miles away, 11.32 cents), Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc (40.1 miles away, 19.90 cents), City of Westerville (OH) (42.2 miles away, 13.19 cents), Licking Rural Electric Inc (45.4 miles away, 16.88 cents), and Ohio Power Co (45.7 miles away, 19.33 cents).