10.95¢
per kWh, 2025
[ Nebraska Public Power District / NE ]
Nebraska Public Power District electricity rates in Nebraska
PUBLIC BOARD SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
+3.0%
vs 2024
74,220
residential customers
+5.7%
since 2020
What your bill becomes
Bill today
No change on file
Difference / month · / year
Estimated at Nebraska Public Power District's average effective residential rate (10.95¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10.69¢ | — | 70,318 |
| 2016 | 10.79¢ | +0.9% | 70,756 |
| 2017 | 10.75¢ | −0.4% | 70,909 |
| 2018 | 10.41¢ | −3.2% | 71,137 |
| 2019 | 10.45¢ | +0.4% | 71,278 |
| 2020 | 10.36¢ | −0.9% | 71,753 |
| 2021 | 10.40¢ | +0.4% | 72,344 |
| 2022 | 10.27¢ | −1.3% | 72,743 |
| 2023 | 10.44¢ | +1.7% | 72,987 |
| 2024 | 10.63¢ | +1.8% | 73,650 |
| 2025 | 10.95¢ | +3.0% | 74,220 |
How this compares
12.05¢
Nebraska average, 2025
−9.1%
Nebraska Public Power District vs NE 2025 average
−36.5%
vs US 2025 average
#14
priciest in NE
Serves 41 counties in Nebraska: Antelope, Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Burt, Cass, Cedar, Cherry, Dakota, Dawes, Deuel, Fillmore, Gage, Garden, Hall, Hamilton, Holt, Howard, Johnson, Keith, Knox, Lancaster, Lincoln, Madison, Morrill, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Perkins, Pierce, Red Willow, Richardson, Rock, Scotts Bluff, Seward, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Thurston, York. 132 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, Nebraska Public Power District's average residential rate has gone from 10.69¢ to 10.95¢ per kWh: +2.4% over 10 years, or about +0.2% a year. It rose in 6 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +3.0% in 2025. The largest drop was −3.2% in 2018.
For a home using 973 kWh a month, the Nebraska average, Nebraska Public Power District's 2025 rate works out to about $1,279 a year, $128 less than at Nebraska's average rate of 12.05¢. Of the 26 Nebraska utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 14th most expensive.
Nebraska Public Power District served 70,318 homes in 2015 and 74,220 in 2025 (+5.5%), about 8% of Nebraska's residential electricity customers.
Who sets Nebraska Public Power District's rates
Nebraska Public Power District is a public power utility run by its own governing board, which sets its rates. How much the Nebraska Public Service Commission oversees those rates depends on Nebraska law.
Commission contact: Nebraska Public Service Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is Nebraska Public Power District raising rates in 2026?
Nebraska Public Power District's rates are set by its governing board, not through a rate case at the Nebraska Public Service Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved +3.0% from 2024 to 2025.
What does Nebraska Public Power District charge per kWh?
Nebraska Public Power District's average effective residential rate was 10.95¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Nebraska's 2025 average was 12.05¢.
How much have Nebraska Public Power District rates gone up in five years?
+5.7% between 2020 and 2025, against +19.4% for Nebraska as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does Nebraska Public Power District have in Nebraska?
74,220 residential customers in 2025, across 41 counties including Antelope, Box Butte, Boyd, according to the EIA-861 survey.
Where do these numbers come from?
Rates and customer counts are from the US Energy Information Administration's annual EIA-861 survey, which every US utility files. Nothing here is a utility bill; use it to understand the direction and size of changes.
Sources
- EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2015–2025 (released 2026-10-07)
- EIA-861M monthly state averages through Jul 2026
- NREL utility-by-ZIP lookup (2024)