Reily Township updates electric aggregation rate
Residents who don’t opt out of the program will be paying 9.69 cents per kWh beginning in June.
Reily Township residents will still see an electric aggregation rate increase following the May billing period for this year, although it will be lower than previously expected.
During a Reily Township Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 18, an electric aggregation rate increase was approved for more than one cent per kWh.
As of June 2025, the approved rate was 8.738 cents per kWh for residents and small businesses in the area who did not choose to opt out of the township's electric aggregation program.
In February, the board approved a new rate of 9.999 cents per kWh for 24 months beginning this June, citing a lack of capacity due to the closure of local power plants.
During a meeting on March 4, Reily Township Fiscal Officer Ronald Tilford told trustees they could change the rate to 9.69 cents per kWh. Customers who don’t opt out of the program will pay this rate for 24 months beginning in June, or until May 2028.
This is still an increase from the previous June 2025 rate.
Residents who opt out of the program will be paying Duke Energy’s rate, which as of January, cost consumers 10.06 cents per kWh.
In other business, the Reily Township Volunteer Fire Department and EMS was granted $25,278.70 from the Hamilton Community Foundation.
According to Meghan Hartman, communications manager for the Hamilton Community Foundation, this grant was the last of the foundation’s Hanover Life Squad Fund, as it has reached the end of its lifecycle.
The fund was established in 1999 after the Hanover Life Squad in Butler County disbanded, and it has awarded nearly $450,000 in grants to fire departments and emergency medical services over the past 27 years.
