44107 resource guide

The Illuminating Company is the delivery utility (EDU) for ZIP 44107 (Lakewood). It delivers electricity, maintains wires/poles, and restores outages. Because Ohio has retail choice here, you pick a CRES supplier for the energy supply portion of your bill (or stay on the utility SSO). Compare offers at Energy Choice Ohio Apples to Apples or WattKarma’s ZIP page.

Call The Illuminating Company at 888-544-4877, or report/track outages via https://www.firstenergycorp.com/outages_help.html. Your competitive supplier does not restore wires or poles. For a downed power line, stay far away and call 911 and the utility.

Use the PUCO Energy Choice Ohio Apples to Apples charts (https://energychoice.ohio.gov/) or WattKarma (https://wattkarma.com/zip/44107). Compare the supplier generation price to the Price to Compare (PTC) on your utility bill at your expected kWh. Watch contract length, early-termination fees, and whether a governmental aggregation already covers your address.

The PTC is the utility’s generation price for Standard Service Offer (SSO) customers. Use it as a benchmark when shopping Apples to Apples offers. If a supplier’s advertised rate is not lower than the PTC after fees and term length, staying on SSO (or your aggregation rate) may be better.

Apples to Apples is the PUCO’s official comparison chart of certified electric (and gas) supplier offers by utility territory. It is Ohio’s equivalent of Texas Power to Choose — use energychoice.ohio.gov, not PowerToChoose.org.

Many Ohio cities and counties run opt-out governmental aggregation: the community negotiates a supplier rate for residents who do not opt out. Check mail notices, your city website, and your bill. Aggregation does not change your delivery utility or who restores outages.

Yes for typical investor-owned utility addresses served by The Illuminating Company. Delivery is regulated; supply is competitive via CRES suppliers. Municipal utilities outside this EDU footprint are not shoppable the same way — confirm your EDU on the bill.

City of Lakewood Water billing 216-529-6820; after-hours emergency 216-521-6773. Do not assume Cleveland Water.

Lakewood Division of Refuse and Recycling — start with city main 216-521-7580 or lakewoodoh.gov refuse pages. Not Cleveland 311.

Dominion Energy Ohio / Enbridge Gas Ohio is the typical LDC for this metro. If you suspect a leak: leave immediately, avoid switches/flames/phones inside, then call 911 and 877-542-2630 from a safe place.