- Ohioans are struggling to pay their utility bills, with an average of 7.7% of customers having their power shut off due to unpaid bills in the latest reporting year, ending May 31.
More and more Ohioans are struggling to pay their utility bills. That’s one clear takeaway from the latest utility reports showing how many customers had their power shut off because of unpaid bills.
Across the state’s regulated electric utilities, an average of 7.7% of customers had their power turned off because of past-due bills for the latest reporting year, ending May 31 — a higher rate than in any of the three preceding periods, which ran between 6% and 7%.
Each customer is one household or business, so the total number of people affected would be more than the total of nearly 345,000 disconnections. The average amount customers owed when their power was cut was more than $60 greater than it was for the year before…