Electric Aggregation Program

What is Electric Aggregation?

Electric aggregation is when an aggregator, like SOPEC, has combined the purchasing power of its member communities to provide residents and small businesses in each community with competitive electricity supply rates. The elected officials of each community represent their constituents through SOPEC, a council of governments.

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programs, like the SOPEC Electric Aggregation Program, bundle all eligible residential and small commercial electric utility accounts in a community together to receive a competitive supply rate from an Ohio-registered Competitive Retail Electric Service (CRES) provider.

How do I know I am enrolled in SOPEC’s Electric Aggregation Program?

You are enrolled in the SOPEC Electric Aggregation Program if your electric bill shows AEP Energy as the Generation Supplier at the rate listed for your community. If a Generation Supplier is not listed on your electric bill, you are receiving the regulated Standard Service Offer (SSO) from your electric utility.

AEP Ohio, AES Ohio, and The Illuminating Company remain the electric utilities in SOPEC communities — billing customers for electricity service, maintaining electric poles and lines, and responding to power outages.

As an energy choice state, customers in Ohio can choose a supplier (CRES provider) individually at the Energy Choice Ohio website or are supplied a competitive generation/supply rate as part of a CCA program.