Lincoln Electric System Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Lincoln Electric System reported 136,859 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 839 kWh a month on average at 11.15 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, Lincoln Electric System ranks 6 from the lowest price.

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.

EIA lists the counties where Lincoln Electric System has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Nebraska. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Lincoln Electric System reported an average of 18 minutes without power per customer and 0.25 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 74 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Lincoln Electric System had about 109 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Nebraska figure across its utilities was 86 minutes. One interruption lasting 74 minutes and 0.25 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 18 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.

• Time-of-use pricing. Lincoln Electric System 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 604 residential net-metered systems on the Lincoln Electric System grid in 2025, with 3.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

Lincoln Electric System is a municipal utility based in Nebraska.

Lincoln Electric System operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Lincoln Electric System ranks 2nd of the 24 utilities that report homes in Nebraska, with about 14.9% of the state's homes. Lincoln Electric System lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 604 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.4 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.

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