OPPD electric rates and bills in the Omaha area

Three answers to "OPPD rates per kWh"

EIA publishes OPPD's residential average for three periods, and each one answers a slightly different question:

• Full year 2025: 13.29¢ per kWh¹, from EIA's annual survey of every utility (EIA-861).
• Last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026): 13.94¢ per kWh, from EIA's monthly sample (EIA-861M); the 2026 months are preliminary.
• August 2026³ alone: 14.45¢ per kWh², preliminary.

Each is average revenue per kWh: what OPPD billed its 368,728¹ residential customers, divided by the kWh they used. It folds in the monthly service charge, the energy charges and the Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment, so it is not a number printed in OPPD's rate schedule. A home that uses little pays more per kWh than this average, because the fixed charge is spread over fewer kWh. The 12-month figure is the best guide to a year of bills; the single month swings with the season.

Nebraska's highest average, below the national middle

Among the 11 Nebraska utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, OPPD had the highest average in 2025, 10.3% above the Nebraska average. The lowest, Southern Public Power District, averaged 9.10¢ per kWh, a spread of 4.19¢ per kWh. Nationally the picture reverses: OPPD ranked 45th lowest of 177 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, against a median of 15.07¢ per kWh for that group, and its average was 8.3% below the national average for public power (14.49¢ per kWh¹).

Neighboring utilities show how wide the gap is. Lincoln Electric System, the city utility of Lincoln, averaged 11.15¢ per kWh in 2025, 3rd lowest of 177. Across the Missouri River, MidAmerican Energy, which serves Council Bluffs among other Iowa cities, averaged 11.21¢ per kWh¹ for its Iowa residential customers.

Lincoln Electric System (NE)11.15¢

MidAmerican Energy (IA)11.21¢

OPPD (NE)13.29¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average residential price (bundled customers)
Lincoln Electric System (NE)	11.15¢
MidAmerican Energy (IA)	11.21¢
OPPD (NE)	13.29¢

Those three averages come from the same EIA survey and cover full-service residential customers in each case, so they compare like with like. They do not say why the utilities differ.

Two rate increases in a row

OPPD's board of directors approves the district's rate changes together with its annual budget. In December 2024 the board approved a 2025 operating plan with an average increase for all customer classes, larger for residential customers than the average, effective in January 2025. In December 2025 it approved a 2026 budget with a further average increase, combining a general rate increase with a higher Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment, effective in January 2026; OPPD's announcement gives the expected change for a typical residential bill and names growing demand for electricity, rising costs and new regulations as the reasons.

EIA's data show the 2025 increase arriving in bills. OPPD's residential average rose 7.5% from 2024 to 2025, from 12.36¢ per kWh to 13.29¢ per kWh, against 4.5%⁵ for Nebraska as a whole and 2.7% at Lincoln Electric System. The average bill rose faster, +10.5%, from $109.32 to $120.78, because use per home also grew, from 885 kWh⁴ to 909 kWh¹ a month.

OPPDNebraska average, all providers

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential revenue divided by kWh in each month, as reported to EIA's monthly survey (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary).

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Month	OPPD (¢/kWh)	kWh per customer	Bill per customer
January 2025	11.49¢	1,122	$128.88
February 2025	12.37¢	882	$109.12
March 2025	12.80¢	867	$110.89
April 2025	15.43¢	506	$78.13
May 2025	13.83¢	720	$99.58
June 2025	13.89¢	937	$130.13
July 2025	13.34¢	1,463	$195.22
August 2025	13.70¢	1,157	$158.60
September 2025	14.23¢	974	$138.51
October 2025	13.88¢	712	$98.74
November 2025	13.80¢	586	$80.86
December 2025	12.25¢	985	$120.64
January 2026	12.77¢	1,019	$130.09
February 2026	13.27¢	769	$102.02
March 2026	14.26¢	773	$110.18
April 2026	14.57¢	616	$89.77
May 2026	14.62¢	796	$116.44
June 2026	13.58¢	1,045	$141.93
July 2026	15.20¢	1,379	$209.61
August 2026	14.45¢	1,218	$176.02

For 2026 only preliminary monthly figures exist. The 12-month average to August 2026, 13.94¢ per kWh, is above the 2025 figure, and August 2026³ came in at 14.45¢ per kWh, +5.5%² on the same month a year earlier. EIA revises these months when the 2026 annual survey is final in August 2027. The guide to rate increases explains how a percentage approved by a board turns into a change on a bill.

July bills, November bills

OPPD's bills peak in summer. Over the 12 months to August 2026, use per home ranged from 586 kWh in November 2025 to 1,379 kWh in July 2026, and the average bill in those two months from $80.86 to $209.61. A household budgeting on the 12-month average of $126.38 a month (907 kWh²) will see bills well above it in midsummer.

974Sep

712Oct

586Nov

985Dec

1,019Jan

769Feb

773Mar

616Apr

796May

1,045Jun

1,379Jul

1,218Aug

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.

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Month	kWh per customer	Bill per customer	¢/kWh
September 2025	974	$138.51	14.23¢
October 2025	712	$98.74	13.88¢
November 2025	586	$80.86	13.80¢
December 2025	985	$120.64	12.25¢
January 2026	1,019	$130.09	12.77¢
February 2026	769	$102.02	13.27¢
March 2026	773	$110.18	14.26¢
April 2026	616	$89.77	14.57¢
May 2026	796	$116.44	14.62¢
June 2026	1,045	$141.93	13.58¢
July 2026	1,379	$209.61	15.20¢
August 2026	1,218	$176.02	14.45¢

The price per kWh moves less than use, and not always in the same direction. In EIA's monthly figures since January 2025, the lowest OPPD averages per kWh came in December and January, high-use winter months, while low-use spring months such as April came in higher, partly because the monthly service charge weighs more per kWh when use is low. Summer months combine high use with averages above the yearly figure, which is why the August 2026³ reading of 14.45¢ per kWh sits above the 12-month 13.94¢ per kWh².

Omaha's lines: where OPPD serves

EIA's 2025 territory records list OPPD in 14 counties of eastern Nebraska: Burt County, Cass County, Colfax County, Dodge County, Douglas County, Johnson County, Lancaster County, Nemaha County, Otoe County, Pawnee County, Richardson County, Sarpy County and 2 others. In 2 of them, Douglas (Omaha) and Sarpy, no other distribution utility reports service. In the other 12⁶, including Lancaster, where Lincoln Electric System serves the city of Lincoln, OPPD shares the county with public power districts, municipal utilities or cooperatives, and the county name does not settle which utility serves a home. OPPD's service-area map does.

OPPD onlyOPPD and other utilitiesOther utilities

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 14 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.

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County	Other utilities reporting service
Burt County	Nebraska Public Power District, Burt County Public Power Dist, Cuming County Public Power Dist, City of Lyons, Village of Decatur
Cass County	Nebraska Public Power District, Village of Greenwood
Colfax County	Loup River Public Power Dist, Cornhusker Public Power Dist, Burt County Public Power Dist, Cuming County Public Power Dist, City of Schuyler, Stanton County Public Power Dist
Dodge County	City of Fremont, Burt County Public Power Dist, Cuming County Public Power Dist, City of Scribner, City of Snyder
Douglas County	none
Johnson County	Nebraska Public Power District, Auburn Board of Public Works, City of Tecumseh, Village of Elk Creek
Lancaster County	Lincoln Electric System, Nebraska Public Power District, Norris Public Power District, City of Nebraska City
Nemaha County	Nebraska Public Power District, City of Nebraska City, Auburn Board of Public Works
Otoe County	Nebraska Public Power District, City of Nebraska City, City of Syracuse, Village of Talmage
Pawnee County	Nebraska Public Power District
Richardson County	Nebraska Public Power District, Auburn Board of Public Works, City of Falls City
Sarpy County	none
Saunders County	Butler Public Power District, City of Wahoo, Village of Prague
Washington County	Burt County Public Power Dist

OPPD accounts for 47.9% of Nebraska's residential customers, the largest share of any utility in the state. Its wholesale market is the Southwest Power Pool (SPP¹).

Storm outages

OPPD customers averaged 558 minutes without power in 2025 counting all events, more than the Nebraska average of 547 minutes; Nebraska ranked 3rd highest among the states on that measure. Excluding major event days, the days of unusually widespread outages that the IEEE 1366 standard sets apart, OPPD's figure was 98 minutes, below the state's 116 minutes. Most of the year's outage time therefore came on major event days. Each customer had 1.57⁸ interruptions on average, counting all events.

MidAmerican Energy (IA)205

Lincoln Electric System (NE)241

OPPD (NE)558

Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	outage minutes per customer (all events)
MidAmerican Energy (IA)	205
Lincoln Electric System (NE)	241
OPPD (NE)	558

Meters and rooftop solar

Only 2.6% of OPPD's residential meters were advanced (AMI) meters in EIA's 2025 data; advanced meters record use by the hour, which time-of-use pricing requires. Rooftop solar is still small: 1,828 net-metered residential installations with 13.6 megawatts of capacity, 5.0⁹ per 1,000 residential customers (2025). The time-of-use guide explains how such rates work where they are offered.

Businesses and industry

OPPD's 50,996 commercial customers paid 8.39¢ per kWh on average in 2025, with an average monthly bill of $1,079.98. Its 95 industrial accounts paid 7.56¢ per kWh, and across all classes the average was 9.51¢ per kWh¹. Industrial and commercial kWh weigh heavily in OPPD's sales, which is why the all-customer average sits so far below the residential one.

Nebraska received $35.8 million¹⁰ in federal LIHEAP energy assistance for fiscal 2026; the help paying your electric bill guide explains LIHEAP and other assistance. For the rest of the state, see electricity in Nebraska.