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City of Grand Island Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with City of Grand Island, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

23 thousand

22,563 homes

Average price

10.32 cents

Nebraska average 12.05

Average bill

$88.27

Per month at 855 kWh

Price rank

3 of 11

Lowest to highest in Nebraska

City of Grand Island rates and average bill

City of Grand Island reported 22,563 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 855 kWh a month on average at 10.32 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 Nebraska utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Grand Island ranks 3 from the lowest price.

City of Grand Island compared with Nebraska and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
City of Grand Island10.32855$88.27
Nebraska (all utilities)12.05973$117.23
United States17.23874$150.68

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where City of Grand Island has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Nebraska. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Nebraska (2 counties)

Hall, Merrick

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Reliability

For 2025, City of Grand Island reported an average of 9 minutes without power per customer and 0.37 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 23 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Grand Island had about 119 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Nebraska figure across its utilities was 86 minutes. One interruption lasting 23 minutes and 0.37 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 9 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. City of Grand Island does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 12 residential net-metered systems on the City of Grand Island grid in 2025, with 0.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Nebraska Power Review Board.

City of Grand Island is a municipal utility based in Nebraska.

City of Grand Island operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

City of Grand Island compared with Nebraska

By residential customers, City of Grand Island ranks 4th of the 24 utilities that report homes in Nebraska, with about 2.5% of the state's homes. Its price of 10.32 cents per kWh is 1.43 cents below the median of 6 other municipal utilities in Nebraska (11.75 cents). At $88.27 a month, an average City of Grand Island home pays about $348 a year less than the Nebraska average of $117.23, and uses 117 kWh a month less. City of Grand Island lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 12 of its residential customers use net metering, or 0.5 per 1,000 homes, against 3.8 for Nebraska as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Nebraska with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other Nebraska utilities

Utilities in Nebraska close in size to City of Grand Island
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
City of Grand IslandMunicipal22,56310.32
Lincoln Electric SystemMunicipal136,85911.15
Nebraska Public Power DistrictPublic power district75,26710.93
Norris Public Power DistrictPublic power district19,3959.54
Loup River Public Power DistrictPublic power district16,44910.82
Dawson Power DistrictPublic power district16,11611.32

See every one on the electric companies in Nebraska page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not City of Grand Island and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

City of Grand Island questions

What is the average residential electric rate for City of Grand Island?

City of Grand Island residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 10.32 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 855 kWh a month and an average bill of $88.27 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Nebraska average was 12.05 cents.

How many customers does City of Grand Island have?

EIA reports about 22,563 residential customers for City of Grand Island in 2025.

Who regulates City of Grand Island?

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it. See the regulator for Nebraska on the Nebraska state page.

How reliable is City of Grand Island?

For 2025, City of Grand Island reported an average of 9 minutes of outage per customer and 0.37 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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