Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel

Northeast

The largest aggregation pool in the state is found in Northeast Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) is made up of over 100 member communities in the FirstEnergy, Columbia Gas of Ohio and Dominion East Ohio territories. The group offers electric and/or natural gas opt-out programs to approximately 500,000 residents. Currently, NOPEC has an agreement with FirstEnergy to provide electricity to many of its member communities. Residents participating in the program receive a discount equal to 5 percent off of FirstEnergy's shopping credit, also known as the "price to beat."

In Sept. 2008, NOPEC approved a letter of intent to purchase electricity from FPL Energy for a three-year period beginning in 2009. The aggregation group expects the proposed deal to result in meaningful cost savings to customers. For more information about the status of this agreement, visit the NOPEC Web site at www.nopecinfo.org.

Northwest

In 2001, several communities in Toledo Edison's service territory in Northwest Ohio banded together to purchase electricity. The group, called the Northwest Ohio Aggregation Coalition (NOAC), includes the cities of Maumee, Oregon, Sylvania, Toledo, Northwood and Perrysburg, the Village of Holland, the unincorporated areas of Lucas County and Lake Township in Wood County. After five years of service by an alternative supplier, customers in all but Lake Township were returned to FirstEnergy in 2006.

Central

Several communities served by American Electric Power plan to join together to purchase electricity. The group known as Central Ohio Public Energy Council (COPEC) includes 56,000 households in the cities of Upper Arlington, Dublin, Reynoldsburg, Dublin, Bexley and Gahanna.  COPEC has not selected a supplier.

Southwest

The Village of Indian Hill was the first community to offer an electric aggregation program in the Cincinnati Gas & Electric service territory. Residents enrolled in the aggregation program purchased power from Dominion Retail. The Indian Hill aggregation program ended in December 2005.

Southeast

Electric Aggregation

• Electric Aggregation: Ohio's Success Story
• Energy Aggregation in Ohio: A Guide For Local Governments
• Map of Aggregation Communities by County

General Aggregation Information

• Fact Sheets
  
  • Aggregation: Where Do We Go From Here?
  • The Basics of Governmental Energy Aggregation
  • Energy Aggregation for Your Organization
  • What Do We Do Next? - A Post Election Process for Aggregated Communities
• Ohio Aggregation Ballot Issue Results
  
  • November 2006 Ballot Results
  • May 2006 Ballot Results
  • November 2005 General Election Results
  • November 2004 Ballot Results
  • 2004 Primary Election Results
  • March 2004 Ballot Results
  • November 2003 Ballot Results
  • May 2003 Ballot Results
  • November 2002 Ballot Results
  • May 2002 Ballot Results
  • November 2001 Election Results
  • May 2001 Primary Results: Electricity Aggregation
  • 2000 General Election Electric Aggregation Results