Nebraska electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
13.59¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.50
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Nebraska compares
At 13.59¢ per kWh, Nebraska is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 4th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Nebraska household uses
Electricity a month
952 kWh
Bill a month
$121
Households in Nebraska use 10% 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 13.59¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 931,345 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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