OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) commercial electricity rates in Nebraska

• Average commercial price, 20258.39¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Nebraska average−1.3%state commercial average 8.50¢
• Commercial customers50,996largest of 23 in Nebraska
• Average use12,869 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,080a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015−3.5%from 8.69¢ per kWh
• Outages98 mina year per customer · US average 124

OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) is a public power utility (a political subdivision of the state, in EIA’s terms) serving 14 counties in Nebraska. Among the 23 Nebraska utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the largest, with about 31% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Omaha Public Power District.

OPPD commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 OPPD billed its commercial customers an average of 8.69¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 8.39¢, so it fell 3.5% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Nebraska fell 2.0% over the same period. The highest year was 2020, at 8.95¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.4%.

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 OPPD

In 2025 the average commercial price at OPPD was 37% below the residential figure and 11% 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 OPPD’s commercial rates are set

OPPD is a public body with its own board, and that board sets its rates. 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 OPPD

EIA counts 49,900 commercial meters at OPPD in 2025, and 1,687 of them (3%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 47,595 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 618 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At OPPD, 113 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.2% 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 OPPD reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 62 commercial net-metered generating systems at OPPD in 2025, with 1.41 MW of capacity between them: about 1.2 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 OPPD’s electric service?

OPPD customers went without power for an average of 98 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.73 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 558 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where OPPD serves

EIA records OPPD serving customers in 14 Nebraska counties: Burt, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson, Sarpy, Saunders, Washington. 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.

• NPPD (8.60¢)
• Lincoln Electric System (8.93¢)

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 OPPD’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: OPPD commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about OPPD

What is the average commercial electricity rate at OPPD?

OPPD billed its commercial customers in Nebraska an average of 8.39¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 1.3% below 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 OPPD?

About $1,080 a month in 2025, on average use of about 12,869 kWh a month. That is OPPD’s commercial revenue divided by its 50,996 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have OPPD’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average OPPD billed commercial customers fell 3.5% between 2015 and 2025, from 8.69¢ to 8.39¢ per kWh. The Nebraska commercial average fell 2.0% over the same period.

How reliable is OPPD’s electric service?

OPPD customers averaged 98 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does OPPD use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 1,687 advanced (AMI) meters among OPPD’s 49,900 commercial meters in 2025, which is 3%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay OPPD?

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 OPPD’s tariff.