Nebraska electricity prices - 13.78¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Nebraska costs 13.78¢/kWh as of - +7.3% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Nebraska home used 1,249 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $172.11 (+4.7% vs a year earlier).
- Nebraska has the 45th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 25% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 13.78¢ | +7.3% |
| Commercial | 9.39¢ | −1.9% |
| Industrial | 10.00¢ | +11.1% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Nebraska carries 3.72 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (0.94 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is below the national figure, and it is a property of the grid here rather than of any one building: a data center drawing 100 GWh a year in Nebraska accounts for about 98.2 million gallons of power-plant water before it cools anything. All states ranked →
A data center's water use is roughly twelve times larger once the water evaporated at its power plants is counted. The Colorado River arithmetic → · how the water numbers work →
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