City-Owned Utility
Electricity in Oberlin, OH
Served by Oberlin Municipal Light & Power
Oberlin receives electricity from a city-owned municipal utility, not one of Ohio's investor-owned utilities. Municipal utility customers are not eligible for Ohio's retail electric choice program — you cannot switch to a competitive supplier through the PUCO Apples-to-Apples comparison tool. Your rates are set directly by Oberlin Municipal Light & Power.
Contact Oberlin City Hall for current rates and billing information.
History of Oberlin
Oberlin was founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart. The pair had become friends while spending the summer of 1832 together in nearby Elyria and discovered a shared dissatisfaction with what they saw as the lack of strong Christian morals among the settlers of the American West. Their proposed solution was to create a religious community that would more closely adhere to Biblical commandments, along with a school for training Christian missionaries who would eventually spread throughout the American frontier. The two decided to name their community after J. F. Oberlin (1740–1826), an Alsatian minister whose pedagogical achievements in a poor and remote area had greatly impressed and inspired them.Shipherd and Stewart rode south from Elyria into the forests that then covered the northern part of Ohio in search of a suitable location for their community.
Wikipedia →Oberlin by the Numbers
- Population
- 11,684
- Median Age
- 36.1 yrs
- Median Household Income
- $73,697/yr
- Median Home Value
- $229,000
- Homeownership Rate
- 68%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023)
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