Southern Public Power District Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Southern Public Power District is a public power district or political-subdivision electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17642. In 2024 it served 15,215 bundled residential customers in Nebraska, and its average realised residential price was 9.21 cents per kWh: $22 million of residential revenue divided by 236,324 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Southern Public Power District's 2024 average prices were 5.06 cents for commercial customers (2,852 accounts) and 6.37 cents for industrial customers (9,968 accounts). Industrial customers paid 2.84 cents less per kWh than households, a 31% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Nebraska, Southern Public Power District ranked number 8 of 27 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (15,215) and accounted for 2.27% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 11.53 cents per kWh, so Southern Public Power District's customers paid 2.32 cents below the Nebraska average (-20.1%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Nebraska is 13.25 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Southern Public Power District in 16 Nebraska counties: Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Franklin, Gosper, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Howard, Kearney, and Merrick, and 4 more. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported buying transmission and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SWPP.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 9.10 cents per kWh for Southern Public Power District in Nebraska across 15,389 residential customers, 0.11 cents lower than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Nebraska by service-territory centroid are City of Hastings (NE) (24 miles away, 11.32 cents), City of Grand Island (NE) (34.2 miles away, 10.93 cents), South Central Public Pwr Dist (37.8 miles away, 9.54 cents), Perennial Public Power Dist (53.8 miles away, 9.74 cents), and Dawson Power District (60.2 miles away, 11.41 cents).