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Electric utilities serving Sherman County, Nebraska

Utilities that list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024, with each one's average price, bill and outage minutes.

Sherman County, Nebraska, appears in the Form EIA-861 service territory of 4 utilities for 2024; Nebraska Public Power District, Dawson Power District and Loup Valleys Rural P P D are the largest by residential customers statewide.

Their average residential prices ran from 10.63¢ to 12.71¢ per kilowatthour, with a median of 11.41¢, against a Nebraska average of 11.53¢ and a US average of 16.48¢. Each price is the utility's figure for all of its Nebraska customers, not for this county alone.

The median SAIDI they reported was 82.8 minutes per customer including major event days; the median among all Nebraska utilities reporting was 138.3.

The Census Bureau estimates the county's population at 2,924. EIA does not publish customers by county, so which utility serves a given address has to be confirmed with the utility or the state utility commission.

4utilities list the county1 on EIA's short form
11.41¢median of their residential pricesNebraska 11.53¢ · US 16.48¢
$145.05median of their monthly billsNebraska $110.28
82.8median SAIDI minutes, all eventsNebraska median 138.3

Average price is revenue divided by sales for the sector and year; it is not a tariff rate. Reliability figures are as reported by utilities to EIA on Form 861 and may use different calculation methods. Figures are for each utility's whole Nebraska operation; EIA publishes nothing at county level.

Utilities and their 2024 figures

UtilityOwnershipResidential customers¢ per kWhMonthly billSAIDI, all eventsSAIDI, no major events
Nebraska Public Power DistrictPublic power district73,65010.63¢$99.6974.474.4
Dawson Power DistrictPublic power district16,08011.41¢$145.05138.3103.2
Loup Valleys Rural P P D short formPublic power district5,924————
Custer Public Power DistrictPublic power district4,70712.71¢$166.8982.872.0

Ordered by residential customers in Nebraska. Short-form filers are small utilities that report only totals to EIA, so no residential price is available; their all-sector revenue per kWh was Loup Valleys Rural P P D 11.67¢. A utility with no customers shown reported its retail sales elsewhere or delivers power that other companies bill for.

Against the state and the country

Measure, 2024Utilities listing Sherman CountyNebraskaUnited States
Average residential price per kWh11.41¢ median11.53¢16.48¢
Average monthly residential bill$145.05 median$110.28$142.26
SAIDI, all events (minutes)82.8 median138.3 median184.5 median
SAIDI, without major event days74.4 median74.4 median99.8 median
Utilities counted4251,413

Outage minutes reported

Nebraska Public Power District74.4 min
Dawson Power District138.3 min
Custer Public Power District82.8 min

SAIDI for 2024 across each utility's whole system, including major event days (paler bars: only the figure without major event days was reported). Not a measure of outages in Sherman County itself.

Population: 2,924 (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimate). Statewide, residential sales came to 5,149 kWh per resident in 2024.

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Questions and answers

Who provides electricity in Sherman County?

Nebraska Public Power District, Dawson Power District, Loup Valleys Rural P P D and Custer Public Power District list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024. Territories overlap, and a utility may cover only a corner of the county.

What is the electricity price in Sherman County?

EIA has no county-level prices. The utilities serving the county reported average residential prices of 10.63¢ to 12.71¢ per kilowatthour across their Nebraska customers in 2024; the state average was 11.53¢.

How reliable is power in Sherman County?

Reliability is reported per utility, not per county. The utilities listed reported a median of 82.8 minutes of interruption per customer in 2024 including major event days and 74.4 minutes excluding them.

Provenance

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 for 2024, final release: service territory file (counties by utility), sales to ultimate customers, reliability and short form files. State and US averages: Form EIA-861M workbook. Population: U.S. Census Bureau. Public domain. To confirm the utility at an address, ask the utility or the state utility commission.