Nebraska solar export compensation
What Nebraska pays for exported rooftop solar power, with the source and the date each figure was checked.
Record verified 2026-09-16 · 15 of 17 fields sourced
What does your utility pay?
No single rate — formula based
No single dollar rate is reproduced on the reviewed program page; OPPD says excess is compensated at the rate specified in Rate 483 - Net Metering Service Rider.
OPPD · Nebraska
OPPD's customer page describes bidirectional metering and directs customers to Rate 483; the rate manual defines qualified generators as 100 kW or less, while the statutory small-facility definition is 25 kW or less.
Source: oppd.com
Full OPPD detail →Nebraska is an entirely public-power state. Exported-solar compensation is published by the individual local distribution utility rather than as one statewide dollar tariff: OPPD points customers to Rate 483, LES publishes a Renewable Net Metering Rider, and NPPD publishes seasonal net-excess-generation terms. The cited Nebraska statute provides avoided-cost compensation for net excess generation, monthly credit carry-forward, annualized-period payout, and a utility-specific 1% capacity threshold; utility schedules may publish more specific terms.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Nebraska compensation is utility-specific: net metering offsets the customer's retail consumption, while net excess generation is credited at the local distribution utility's avoided cost; OPPD, LES, and NPPD publish their own riders or program terms. |
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| Export rate | There is no single statewide dollar export rate in the reviewed sources. Nebraska law specifies that net excess generation is credited at the local distribution utility's avoided cost; OPPD directs customers to Rate 483, LES uses its Renewable Net Metering Rider Energy Payment rate, and NPPD publishes separate prices by generation type and season. |
| Rate effective | Utility schedules control the effective rate: LES publishes its Renewable Net Metering Rider as effective with services provided after December 31, 2025, and OPPD's rate manual states Effective 01/01/2026. |
| Credit rollover | Yes. Monetary credits are carried forward from billing period to billing period and credited against subsequent retail electric bills; LES also says credits exceeding billing-period charges roll over to the following billing period. |
| Credit expiration | The statute does not state a general expiration date for carried-forward monetary credits; it requires excess monetary credits to be paid out at the final bill at the end of each annualized period or within 60 days after service termination. |
| Annual true-up | Excess monetary credits are paid out to coincide with the final bill at the end of each annualized period, or within 60 days after the customer-generator terminates retail service. |
| Residential system cap | A qualified facility for the statutory net-metering program has a rated capacity at or below 25 kilowatts; a utility may provide net metering above 25 kilowatts under another arrangement. |
| Commercial system cap | The statutory qualified-facility definition uses a rated capacity at or below 25 kilowatts; the statute also says nothing prevents a utility from providing net metering to renewable units above 25 kilowatts. |
| Aggregate program cap | A local distribution utility is not required to provide net metering to additional customer-generators after its net-metered capacity reaches or exceeds 1% of the capacity needed to meet its average aggregate customer monthly peak-demand forecast for that calendar year. |
| Program status | The 1% threshold is utility-specific and is measured against each local distribution utility's average aggregate customer monthly peak-demand forecast for the calendar year. |
| Regulator | Nebraska's public-power utilities publish and administer their own service rules and rates; the Nebraska Power Review Board receives annual net-metering reports from local distribution utilities. |
| Docket | Not yet verified |
| Governing rule | Nebraska has no statewide utility-commission tariff; terms are set utility by utility under the local-distribution-utility framework. The Nebraska Legislature's net-metering provisions are in sections 70-2001 to 70-2005, including section 70-2003. |
| Grandfathering | No separate statewide grandfathering provision was identified in the reviewed current statute or utility pages; LES states that an interconnection-date tier remains fixed for 10 years. |
| Interconnection application | Customers must enter an interconnection agreement and satisfy the qualified-facility and other statutory requirements; LES directs applicants to submit a Net Metering Application and required documentation, then complete inspection and meter-setting steps. |
| Interconnection timeline | LES requires Nebraska Power Review Board approval or exemption documentation no later than 30 days before construction for renewable generation up to 100 kW; its net-metering overview requires application, signed agreement, site inspection, and bidirectional-meter setting before interconnection. |
| Pending change | Not yet verified |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) | No single dollar rate is reproduced on the reviewed program page; OPPD says excess is compensated at the rate specified in Rate 483 - Net Metering Service Rider. OPPD's rate manual states Effective 01/01/2026. OPPD's customer page describes bidirectional metering and directs customers to Rate 483; the rate manual defines qualified generators as 100 kW or less, while the statutory small-facility definition is 25 kW or less. |
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| Lincoln Electric System (LES) | Formula, not a single fixed dollar figure: LES purchases net energy delivered at the applicable Renewable Net Metering Rider Energy Payment rate, based on the Energy Charge Tier in effect when the bidirectional meter is set; the Tier remains for 10 years. Effective with all services provided after December 31, 2025. LES publishes monthly rollover, calendar-year payout, a 25 kW AC net-metering limit, and a 1% utility capacity threshold. No unsupported current dollar export figure is inserted. |
| Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) | Formula/seasonal program: NPPD says net excess generation prices depend on generation type, with separate prices for wind, photovoltaic, and baseload generation, varying between summer and winter; no dollar figure was readable in the fetched page. NPPD's page limits the net-metering option to smaller generators of 25 kW or less and identifies the Net Metering Service NM Rider. |
Sources read for this record
- nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=70-2003
- nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/101/PDF/Slip/LB436.pdf
- oppd.com/residential/residential-rates/customer-owned-generation/net-metering/
- oppd.com/media/172612/oppd-rate-manual.pdf
- les.com/rates/residential-rates
- les.com/sites/default/files/net-metering-overview.pdf
- les.com/sites/default/files/renewable-generation-overview.pdf
- nppd.com/rates/net-metering
- nppd.com/net-metering
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- How these figures are sourced and dated
- Alabama — Rate PAE 2026 payment options are time-of-day: 5.17¢/kWh weekday 10 a.
- Alaska — There is no single statewide dollar export rate: the applicable rate i
- Arizona — Set per utility, not statewide. APS: $0.05554/kWh. TEP: $0.0513/kWh, w
- Arkansas — There is no single statewide export number. Non-legacy exports are cre
- California — No single statewide export rate. Compensation is set by the CPUC Avoid
- Colorado — No single statewide dollar export rate. Under ordinary net metering, m
- Connecticut — Netting export rate is a formula, not a single statewide dollar figure
- Delaware — There is no single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate: the monthly e
- District of Columbia — Monthly excess generation is credited at the applicable full retail ra
- Florida — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate. Monthly net exports ar
- Georgia — 3.2188¢/kWh solar avoided cost for 2026, plus 4¢/kWh adder for RNR-Ins
- Hawaii — Hawaiian Electric Smart Renewable Energy Export rates for 2024-2026, i
- Idaho — Idaho Power Schedule 6 lists Export Credit Rate, per kWh: Summer On-Pe
- Illinois — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate. For new residential and small
- Indiana — Utility-specific EDG rates, not one statewide rate; the verified utili
- Iowa — There is no single statewide dollar rate. Under the current inflow-out
- Kansas — There is no single statewide dollar rate. For systems operating under
- Kentucky — There is no single statewide export rate. Current published utility ex
- Louisiana — Avoided-cost export rates effective in 2026 are $0.0386407/kWh for Ent
- Maine — There is no single statewide export price. The kWh Credit Program prov
- Maryland — No single statewide export price: for the annual-accrual option, net e
- Massachusetts — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate. For ordinary qualifying solar
- Michigan — Utility- and rate-schedule-specific, not one statewide flat rate. DTE'
- Minnesota — There is no single statewide dollar export rate. Xcel's latest posted
- Mississippi — There is no single statewide export rate. Entergy Mississippi's Attach
- Missouri — Utility-specific avoided-fuel-cost/cogeneration rate, not a single sta
- Montana — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate is stated in the review
- Nevada — Tier 4 exports are credited at 75% of the applicable retail rate; Nort
- New Hampshire — There is no single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate: for small customer-g
- New Jersey — One-for-one retail-rate credit against delivered electricity during th
- New Mexico — There is no single statewide fixed export number in the cited rule. Ex
- New York — No single statewide $/kWh rate. The Value Stack is calculated from uti
- North Carolina — No single statewide export rate exists. For the current DEC NMB and RS
- North Dakota — No single statewide dollar export rate is stated. For energy provided
- Ohio — No single statewide dollar rate. Under the standard utility tariff, ex
- Oklahoma — There is no single statewide dollar export rate. Net excess is credite
- Oregon — Full retail rate for each rate component on the bill that uses kWh as
- Pennsylvania — No single statewide dollar rate: full retail kWh rate for monthly offs
- Rhode Island — There is no single statewide dollar headline rate. Renewable net-meter
- South Carolina — No single statewide export rate exists. Santee Cooper's DG-25 rider li
- South Dakota — There is no single statewide export rate. The PUC says South Dakota do
- Tennessee — NESolar Connect publishes seasonal base rates of $0.07363/kWh summer,
- Texas — No statewide rate. Published municipal examples include Austin Energy
- Utah — Schedule 137: 4.855 cents/kWh for exports in June through September; 4
- Vermont — The statewide blended residential base credit is $0.2071/kWh effective
- Virginia — No single statewide rate exists. APCo Rider N.M.S. II lists total avoi
- Washington — Applicable retail energy rate / kWh credit under the customer's utilit
- West Virginia — Mon Power lists $0.09343 per kWh for Schedules A, B, C, CSH and Lighti
- Wisconsin — Utility-specific. 2026 examples are WEPCO CGS-NM residential/secondary
- Wyoming — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate exists. Energy exported