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Omaha Public Power District net metering in Nebraska

Omaha and thirteen surrounding counties in southeastern Nebraska. A public power district with an elected board of directors, serving the largest city in the state.

Type
Municipal
Accounts
400K

What they credit you

Netted monthly; excess at 4.00 or 3.52 cents, paid out each December

Published terms

Under Rider No. 483, energy is netted over each billing period. A month’s net excess earns a bill credit of 4.00 cents a kWh from June to September and 3.52 cents otherwise, against 11.9 and 9.5 cents to buy.

Month to month
Credit larger than a bill carries forward, and any balance left at the end of the calendar year is paid to you.
Once a year
At the end of the calendar year, remaining credit is paid out.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Installers serving OPPD customers

Pick one. Only the company you choose receives your details, and only that company calls you.

Not sure which to choose?

These are real companies operating in OPPD territory, ordered by reviews, years trading and BBB grade. None of them pays us for placement. Pick the one you want and we will call you to arrange it.

Ordering combines three things we read from primary sources: Google review count and rating, years trading taken from the company’s Better Business Bureau profile rather than its own marketing, and its BBB letter grade. BBB accreditation is shown but never scored, because it is a paid membership rather than a mark of quality.

Check any contractor license yourself at the state register. Do that before you sign anything, with any company, including ours.

What this looks like on a OPPD 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.

OPPD requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in OPPD territory.

OPPD does not credit the power you send back at the rate it charges you to take it.

That does not make solar a bad idea in OPPD territory. It changes what you should build. When exports are worth a fraction of retail the credit stops being the return, and the job becomes using more of your own production inside the house, which usually means a larger array than a one for one utility would need.

Sizing is where that gets decided, so ask about it directly. Nebraska caps net metering eligibility at 25 kW and credits exports at avoided cost, so the design question is how much of your own production you can use rather than how much roof you have. OPPD sets its own limits. Ask OPPD what it allows before you accept that a bigger system is off the table.

A battery then does two separate jobs. It moves daytime production into the evening so you use it instead of selling it, and it keeps the house running when the grid goes down. That second job is not a bonus. Panels on their own shut off in an outage, by design, so a roof full of them powers nothing during a storm. That is the part we will not refer around.

So we treat it as a requirement, not an upgrade. We will not refer you for a panels-only system in OPPD territory, and you should be skeptical of anyone who quotes you one without raising storage first.

Our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement

What your installer should be telling you

Systems up to 100 kW qualify, but size to what the house uses: each month’s surplus is worth about a third of retail. Rider No. 483 customers cannot use OPPD’s Level Payment Plan.

What OPPD 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
$30.00 a month
How it is set
Rate Schedule No. 110, Standard Residential Service, sets a Monthly Service Charge of $30.00 and a “Minimum Monthly Bill: $30.00”, adding that “The minimum monthly bill is the monthly service charge” (effective 1 January 2026, Resolution No. 6743). Energy is 11.937 cents a kilowatt hour from June to September and 9.503 cents otherwise, plus the Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment. Under Net Metering Rider No. 483, for systems up to 100 kW, energy is netted over each billing period. A month with net use is billed normally; a month with net excess still pays the non-energy charges, so the $30.00, and the excess earns a bill credit of 4.00 cents a kilowatt hour in summer and 3.52 cents otherwise, roughly a third of the price of the energy it replaces. Credit that exceeds a bill carries forward, and whatever is left at the end of the calendar year is paid to you.

Omaha Public Power District Rate Manual: Rate Schedule No. 110, Standard Residential Service, effective 1 January 2026 (Resolution No. 6743); Rider Schedule No. 461, Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment; Rider Schedule No. 483, Net Metering Service, effective 1 September 2021 (Resolution No. 6457) · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Applying to OPPD

What OPPD 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 OPPD’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-07 · source

OPPD net metering questions

Does OPPD offer one for one net metering?
No. Under Rider No. 483, energy is netted over each billing period. A month’s net excess earns a bill credit of 4.00 cents a kWh from June to September and 3.52 cents otherwise, against 11.9 and 9.5 cents to buy.
What does OPPD pay for power sent back to the grid?
Netted monthly; excess at 4.00 or 3.52 cents, paid out each December. At the end of the calendar year, remaining credit is paid out.
Do I need a battery with OPPD?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because OPPD does not credit exports one for one, the return has to come from using your own production rather than selling it, which after dark means storage and usually a larger array than a one for one utility would need. The other half is backup: panels alone shut off in an outage, so a battery is what keeps the house running in a storm. We do not refer panels-only systems in OPPD territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my OPPD bill?
Sign in at oppd.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 OPPD?
Systems up to 100 kW qualify, but size to what the house uses: each month’s surplus is worth about a third of retail. Rider No. 483 customers cannot use OPPD’s Level Payment Plan.