Nebraska (NE) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
13.78¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.38
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Nebraska's gas works out at 8.13¢ per kWh against 13.78¢ for electricity.
That compares the energy you buy, not the heat you get. A furnace throws away a fifth of every therm up the flue, while a heat pump delivers two to three times the heat in a kilowatt hour — so the cheaper unit here is not automatically the cheaper way to heat a house.
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-07. Updated monthly.
How Nebraska compares
At 13.78¢ per kWh, Nebraska is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 7th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Nebraska household uses
Electricity a month
954 kWh
Bill a month
$123
Households in Nebraska use 11% more electricity than the national average and pay 19% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 13.78¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate pulls the other way here: 6,300 heating degree days against 1,200 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
More on this: the average electric bill in Nebraska, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 936,722 residential accounts in Nebraska. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Nebraska sees around 140 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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