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Nebraska Public Power District net metering in Nebraska

Most of the state outside Omaha and Lincoln, through its own retail territory and wholesale customers. The largest electric utility in Nebraska, a public power district governed by an elected board.

Type
Municipal
Accounts
600K

What they credit you

Netted monthly; solar surplus at 9.07 or 5.06 cents

Published terms

Under the Net Metering Service Rider, a month with net use is billed at your standard rate. A month with net excess generation earns a monetary credit, for a photovoltaic system 9.07 cents a kWh from June to September and 5.06 cents from October to May, against energy at 10.04 and 7.90 cents. The credit is applied against that month’s non-energy charges first.

Month to month
Credit left after that month’s charges carries forward as an offset to future charges.
Once a year
At the end of an annualized period, or when you leave the rider, any amount owed to you for accumulated credit is paid out.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-07 · source

Installers serving NPPD customers

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What this looks like on a NPPD bill

An average Nebraska household, against a system sized to cover its year. The energy charge is the part that goes to zero. The fixed monthly charge underneath it is the part that never does, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

Meter readingkWh
Energy charge$126.67
$126.67
We have read this provider’s own tariff. What it still bills you at zero is set out below, with the sheet it came from. The energy line above uses the statewide average. See what they still bill
DirectionReading…

Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41659 kilowatt hours. A 956 kilowatt hour month against 1,223 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 267 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $126.67 to $0.00 at 13.25 cents per kilowatt hour.

Nebraska average household use, 956 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 13.25¢ per kWh. Your utility still bills a fixed monthly customer charge that no system offsets, so this is the energy part of the bill, which is the part that goes away.

What your installer should be telling you

This applies only where NPPD bills you directly; a town or co-op that buys NPPD power wholesale sets its own terms. The rider closes to new customers once participating generation reaches 1% of the peak annual demand of NPPD’s retail customers, and NPPD’s board may change it at any time by resolution.

What NPPD bills you anyway

In a month when your production covers everything you use, the energy charge can reach zero. This does not. It is the floor under every bill, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

The charge
$26.75 a month, or $28.16 where the 5% gross revenue tax applies
How it is set
This applies only if NPPD bills you directly. NPPD also sells power wholesale to towns and cooperatives across Nebraska, and their customers pay whatever their own town or co-op charges, not this. For NPPD’s own retail customers, the Residential Service Rate Schedule sets “Customer Charge: $26.75 per month”, effective 1 January 2026 under Resolution 25-49, and the minimum is “Customer Charge, subject to applicable Base Rate Adjustment.” That adjustment is not small. Where NPPD owes a 5% Gross Revenue Tax on the distribution system serving you, the whole base rate is divided by 0.95, which takes the customer charge to $28.16; where it carries a lease payment or debt service obligation the divisor is one minus that percentage, and where both apply the two are added together. Which line you fall on depends on the town, so two neighbors either side of a boundary can pay different floors. Energy is 10.04 cents a kilowatt hour from June to September and 7.90 cents from October to May, flat, before the Production Cost Adjustment. At $26.75 the fixed charge is among the higher ones on this site, and with energy that cheap a system needs to displace well over 250 kilowatt hours a month just to match it.

Nebraska Public Power District, Residential Service Rate Schedule RS, issued 19 November 2025, approved 13 November 2025 by Resolution 25-49, effective 1 January 2026; minimum bill and Base Rate Adjustment table on sheets 1 and 2 of 3 · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to NPPD

What NPPD itself requires, as distinct from what the state rule requires. Read from its own published guidelines on the date shown.

Every utility in Nebraska is publicly owned
Nebraska has no investor owned electric utility. Your provider is a public power district, a municipal system or a cooperative.
Retail inside the month, a lower rate on the surplus
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 70-2002(6) credits each kilowatt hour the system makes at the retail rate up to what you used in the billing period, and the net excess at the utility’s avoided cost of electricity supply. Each utility prints its own figure for that surplus.
Credits are dollars, and they are paid out
Under § 70-2003(4), monetary credits carry forward from billing period to billing period, and any excess is paid out with the final bill at the end of each annualized period, or within sixty days if you close the account.
25 kilowatts, and a 1% limit
The statute covers a qualified facility of 25 kW or less. A utility is not required to take new net metering customers once customer generation reaches 1% of the capacity needed for its forecast average monthly peak demand that year.
You keep the renewable energy credits
Under § 70-2004(4), the customer-generator owns the renewable energy credits of the electricity its system generates.

From NPPD’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-07 · source

NPPD net metering questions

Does NPPD offer one for one net metering?
Yes. Under the Net Metering Service Rider, a month with net use is billed at your standard rate. A month with net excess generation earns a monetary credit, for a photovoltaic system 9.07 cents a kWh from June to September and 5.06 cents from October to May, against energy at 10.04 and 7.90 cents. The credit is applied against that month’s non-energy charges first. Credit left after that month’s charges carries forward as an offset to future charges.
What does NPPD pay for power sent back to the grid?
Netted monthly; solar surplus at 9.07 or 5.06 cents. At the end of an annualized period, or when you leave the rider, any amount owed to you for accumulated credit is paid out.
Do I need a battery with NPPD?
Not for the economics. NPPD credits exports at the retail rate, so power you send out during the day comes back at the same value after dark without storage. A battery is still worth considering for outages during hurricane season, but it is an upgrade here rather than a requirement.
How do I find my NPPD bill?
Sign in at nppd.com. Open My Account, then Billing. Open the latest bill and save the PDF. Or screenshot the summary page. If you cannot get to it, a rough guess at your average monthly amount is enough to start.
What is the catch with NPPD?
This applies only where NPPD bills you directly; a town or co-op that buys NPPD power wholesale sets its own terms. The rider closes to new customers once participating generation reaches 1% of the peak annual demand of NPPD’s retail customers, and NPPD’s board may change it at any time by resolution.