State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Nebraska Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Nebraska costs 13.59¢ per kWh (+3.3% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Nebraska's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 12.34¢/kWh, 28.7% below the US average. Power costs less here than the US average, with renewables at 33% of generation and the balance, detailed below, coming from conventional fuels.
- 13.59¢
- May 2026 rate
- +3.3%
- year over year
- 12.34¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -28.7%
- vs US average
- 33%
- Renewable
- 928.7K
- Customers
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12.34¢/kWh residential, 8.79¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Nebraska's residential average revenue per kWh is 12.34¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 8.79¢/kWh and an industrial average of 8.00¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 33% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 28.7% below the US average vs national residential average
- 33% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Nebraska's residential electricity runs 12.34¢/kWh - 28.7% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 96% of other states, with 33% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 928.7K reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Nebraska's residential average rose from 11.53¢/kWh to 12.34¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +7.0%.
- Nebraska's commercial average rose from 8.39¢/kWh to 8.79¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.8%.
- Nebraska's industrial average rose from 7.66¢/kWh to 8.00¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.4%.
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Nebraska generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 33.1% of generation.
- Coal45.6%
- Windrenewable29.1%
- Nuclear17.2%
- Natural Gas3.9%
- Hydrorenewable3.1%
- Solarrenewable0.8%
- Petroleum0.2%
Who generates Nebraska's electricity
Nebraska has 288 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 11,414 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Gerald Gentleman , a conventional steam coal station operated by Nebraska Public Power District , rated 1,365 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Southwest Power Pool and Western Area Power Administration - Rocky Mountain Region.
Showing the 16 largest of 133 operable plants in Nebraska by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerald Gentleman | Nebraska Public Power District | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,365 |
| Nebraska City | Omaha Public Power District | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,338 |
| Cooper Nuclear Station | Nebraska Public Power District | Nuclear | – | 769 |
| North Omaha | Omaha Public Power District | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 564 |
| Turtle Creek | Omaha Public Power District | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 442 |
| Grande Prairie Wind Farm | BHE Renewables, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 400 |
| Cass County | Omaha Public Power District | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 324 |
| Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project | Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 318 |
| Sarpy County | Omaha Public Power District | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 313 |
| Milligan 1 Wind Farm | Milligan 1 Wind, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 300 |
| Thunderhead Wind Energy LLC | Invenergy Services LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 300 |
| Haystack Wind Project, LLC | Haystack Wind Project, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 298 |
| Whelan Energy Center | City of Hastings - (NE) | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 296 |
| Rokeby | Lincoln Electric System | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 259 |
| Little Blue Wind Project, LLC | Little Blue Wind Project, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 251 |
| Plum Creek Wind Project (NE) | Plum Creek Wind, LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 230 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | 8 | 3,256 |
| Nebraska Public Power District | 12 | 2,877 |
| Invenergy Services LLC | 4 | 612 |
| Lincoln Electric System | 3 | 460 |
| BHE Renewables, LLC | 1 | 400 |
| Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, LLC | 1 | 318 |
| Milligan 1 Wind, LLC | 1 | 300 |
| Haystack Wind Project, LLC | 1 | 298 |
| City of Hastings - (NE) | 2 | 296 |
| Little Blue Wind Project, LLC | 1 | 251 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
What Nebraska's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Nebraska pay 12.34¢/kWh in 2025, across 928.7K metered households, placing the state 28.7% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 8.79¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 8.00¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 10.7M MWh on roughly $1.3B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
The two ends of Nebraska's market are priced very differently: 49 of 51 for households against 34 for industry. A gap this wide means a single statewide "electricity price" describes almost nothing, and the sector figures above should be read separately. No single fuel reaches half of Nebraska's in-state generation. Coal leads at 45.6%, with wind at 29.1% close enough behind that the mix reads as a balance rather than a clear lead. It is the leading fuel in 9 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 33.1% of Nebraska's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Nebraska moved from 10.84¢/kWh in 2016 to 12.34¢/kWh in 2025, a 13.8% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Louisiana, Arkansas, Idaho, a useful peer set for a sanity check. A coal-led grid prices differently from a fuel-market-led one. Nebraska's generators buy under multi-year contracts and recover plant capital through the rate base, so the rate above tends to move in regulated steps rather than with any commodity price, and the live question is what retiring units get replaced with. Read the number as a floor rather than a promise. A statewide average this far under the national figure is usually held down by a few large low-cost generators, and a household on the wrong side of a service-territory boundary in Nebraska can pay well above it.
-28.7%
Much cheaper vs the US residential average
96%
of states have higher rates — Among the cheapest
33%
Moderate renewable — above the 25% US mix
928.7K
residential customers served
Residential Price History
Nebraska residential average revenue per kWh moved from 10.84¢/kWh in 2016 to 12.34¢/kWh in 2025 (13.8% over the window).
- Nebraska residential avg
- 12.34¢/kWh 13.8% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Nebraska residential: 2016, 10.8¢
- Nebraska residential: 2017, 11¢
- Nebraska residential: 2018, 10.7¢
- Nebraska residential: 2019, 10.8¢
- Nebraska residential: 2020, 10.8¢
- Nebraska residential: 2021, 10.8¢
- Nebraska residential: 2022, 10.8¢
- Nebraska residential: 2023, 11.2¢
- Nebraska residential: 2024, 11.5¢
- Nebraska residential: 2025, 12.3¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Nebraska full trend →
Nebraska Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Nebraska households paid 12.34¢/kWh while businesses paid 8.79¢/kWh, a 40.4% residential premium, a wider household-versus-business gap than most states. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12.34¢/kWh | 8.79¢/kWh | 8.00¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 11.53¢/kWh | 8.39¢/kWh | 7.66¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 11.20¢/kWh | 8.76¢/kWh | 7.63¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 10.79¢/kWh | 8.82¢/kWh | 7.21¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 10.75¢/kWh | 8.81¢/kWh | 7.26¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 10.80¢/kWh | 8.89¢/kWh | 7.38¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 10.77¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 7.65¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 10.70¢/kWh | 8.83¢/kWh | 7.60¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 10.97¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 7.66¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 10.84¢/kWh | 8.80¢/kWh | 7.69¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Nebraska's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
12.34¢/kWh Top 6% most affordable More affordable than 96% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Nebraska compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Nebraska against the US average or a peer state.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$1.3B
Commercial Revenue
$1.3B
Residential Sales
10.7M MWh
Residential Customers
928.7K
Using Nebraska's numbers
Nebraska is mid-transition, which is the phase where prices are hardest to predict: it is paying to run the old fleet and to build the new one at the same time, and the rate above sits in the middle of that.
- Nebraska sits 28.7% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Nebraska price trend
- Compare Nebraska side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by coal
These grids also report coal as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Where Nebraska's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Nebraska
The 25 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Nebraska to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 362.9K | 12.36¢ |
| Lincoln Electric System | Municipal | 134.9K | 10.86¢ |
| Nebraska Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 73.7K | 10.63¢ |
| City of Grand Island - (NE) | Municipal | 22.8K | 10.93¢ |
| Norris Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 18.4K | 9.61¢ |
| Loup River Public Power Dist | Political Subdivision | 16.3K | 10.59¢ |
| Dawson Power District | Political Subdivision | 16.1K | 11.41¢ |
| Southern Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 15.2K | 9.21¢ |
| City of Fremont - (NE) | Municipal | 14.1K | 11.97¢ |
| City of North Platte | Municipal | 11.9K | 11.36¢ |
| City of Hastings - (NE) | Municipal | 11.6K | 11.32¢ |
| Cornhusker Public Power Dist | Political Subdivision | 7.4K | 10.84¢ |
| Northeast Power | Political Subdivision | 6.8K | 9.73¢ |
| Elkhorn Rural Public Pwr Dist | Political Subdivision | 6.1K | 9.41¢ |
| Cedar-Knox Public Power Dist | Political Subdivision | 5.6K | 8.44¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 25 reporting utilities. The 2 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.