OpenStream holds no Ohio certification from the PUCO and earns nothing from any supplier.
Ohio certifies everyone who sells competitive retail electric service, and the PUCO's Apples to Apples chart lists only certified suppliers and aggregators. Ohio Revised Code §4928.08, Certification to provide retail electric competitive service says: “No electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator shall provide a competitive retail electric service to a consumer in this state on and after the starting date of competitive retail electric service without first being certified by the public utilities commission regarding its managerial, technical, and financial capability to provide that service and providing a financial guarantee sufficient to protect customers and electric distribution utilities from default.” The same section names power brokers and aggregators as a class of their own (“As used in division (B)(2) of this section, an "electric services company" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code, but excludes a power broker or aggregator.”) and provides that the rules include procedures for biennially renewing certification.
OpenStream holds no Ohio certification of any kind, takes no compensation or other consideration from any supplier, and sells nothing: the pages here are information read from the PUCO's own chart, and every link to a supplier is a plain hand-off. Whether a comparison site that is paid by suppliers needs a broker or aggregator certification is a question for the PUCO; it does not arise while nothing is paid. When a certification is applied for and granted, this page will say so and carry the number.
Every “Go to {supplier}” link goes through our hand-off page, which shows the offer, its effective price at 1,000 kWh and the day it was confirmed, then sends you to the Sign Up address the PUCO's chart gives for that offer. You enrol with the supplier directly. The link carries no affiliate reference and pays nothing. Paying would never change the order: every offer is ranked on its effective price in its utility, whoever pays.