 Since the 1980s, Ohio Citizen Action has played a key role in stopping hundreds of millions of dollars in rate hikes by Ohio utilities including Columbia Gas, East Ohio Gas, Ohio Edison, Toledo Edison, FirstEnergy, American Electric Power (AEP) and Duke Energy.This includes fixed-rate increases proposed in 2018 that would have cost 1.5 million AEP customers $120 and 840,000 Duke customers $192 more per year on their energy bills, regardless of how much energy they used.In the early 1980s the group joined a vast coalition organized against the Zimmer Nuclear Power plant in Moscow, Ohio.