Lincoln Electric System (LES) commercial electricity rates in Nebraska

• Average commercial price, 20258.93¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Nebraska average+5.1%state commercial average 8.50¢
• Commercial customers18,0253rd largest of 23 in Nebraska
• Average use7,192 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$642a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+19%from 7.50¢ per kWh
• Outages18 mina year per customer · US average 124

Lincoln Electric System (LES) is a municipal utility serving 1 county in Nebraska. Among the 23 Nebraska utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 3rd largest, with about 11% of the state’s commercial customers.

Lincoln Electric System commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Lincoln Electric System billed its commercial customers an average of 7.50¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 8.93¢, so it rose 19% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Nebraska fell 2.0% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.7%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Lincoln Electric System

In 2025 the average commercial price at Lincoln Electric System was 20% below the residential figure and 16% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Lincoln Electric System’s commercial rates are set

Lincoln Electric System is owned by the community it serves. Its rates are set locally, by the city council or a utility board, and in most states the state commission does not set them. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Nebraska, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Lincoln Electric System

EIA counts 18,435 commercial meters at Lincoln Electric System in 2025 and reports no advanced (AMI) meters among them. Of those, 18,435 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only. Without an advanced meter a business generally has no interval data, so its peak demand is read from the meter’s own register.

At Lincoln Electric System, 7 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.0% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Lincoln Electric System reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 97 commercial net-metered generating systems at Lincoln Electric System in 2025, with 1.11 MW of capacity between them: about 5.4 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Lincoln Electric System’s electric service?

Lincoln Electric System customers went without power for an average of 18 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.25 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 241 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Lincoln Electric System serves

EIA records Lincoln Electric System serving customers in 1 Nebraska county: Lancaster. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists the Southwest Power Pool as its balancing authority. SPP is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Nebraska

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Nebraska page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• OPPD (8.39¢)
• NPPD (8.60¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Lincoln Electric System’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Nebraska page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Lincoln Electric System commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Lincoln Electric System

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Lincoln Electric System?

Lincoln Electric System billed its commercial customers in Nebraska an average of 8.93¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 5.1% above the Nebraska commercial average of 8.50¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Lincoln Electric System?

About $642 a month in 2025, on average use of about 7,192 kWh a month. That is Lincoln Electric System’s commercial revenue divided by its 18,025 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Lincoln Electric System’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Lincoln Electric System billed commercial customers rose 19% between 2015 and 2025, from 7.50¢ to 8.93¢ per kWh. The Nebraska commercial average fell 2.0% over the same period.

How reliable is Lincoln Electric System’s electric service?

Lincoln Electric System customers averaged 18 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Is this the rate my business will pay Lincoln Electric System?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Lincoln Electric System’s tariff.