In 2021, 14.7 percent of the electricity generated in Nebraska was sold out of state. This was less–than–one percent lower than the 15.4 percent in 2020.

Expenditures for electricity rose to $2,989.2 million in 2022, which was 4.6 percent more than the $2,857.9 million spent on electricity in 2021. The residential sector spent 39.7 percent of the total with the industrial sector spending 32.0 percent, and the commercial sector spending 28.4 percent.

Electricity use in Nebraska rose to 33,844 million kilowatthours in 2022, an increase of 4.7 percent from 32,341 million kilowatthours in 2021. Each of the sectors used relatively one–third of the electricity consumed in Nebraska in 2022. The industrial sector used 39 percent, the residential sector used 33 percent, and the commercial sector used 28 percent.

Nebraska is the only state that generates electricity entirely by publicly-owned power systems. As of 2021, the statewide average electricity price is the ninth-lowest rate in the country, based on the latest federal figures. (States are ranked so that equivalent prices are ranked at the same level.) Nationally, electricity costs 25.6 percent more than it does in Nebraska. Across all sectors, Hawaii has the highest electricity rate (30.31 cents), and Idaho has the lowest electricity rate (8.17 cents).

According to a sun index developed for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) using data provided by NREL's Renewable Resource Data Center, Nebraska is ranked thirteenth in the nation with the greatest energy potential from solar power.

A map is available showing the community solar projects in Nebraska.

Based on the sun index level, Nebraska is ranked thirteenth among the states with the greatest energy potential from solar power, according to a sun index developed for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) using data provided by NREL's Renewable Resource Data Center.

Nebraska has the twelfth–largest installed capacity of wind in the country, based on the latest figures. In the third quarter of 2023, Nebraska has the installed capacity of 3,519.0 megawatts of wind energy, which is 2.6 percent of the nation's installed capacity of 132,938.0 megawatts. Texas has the largest installed capacity (36,008.9 megawatts which is 27.1 percent of the nation's total), and Delaware has the smallest installed capacity (2.0 megawatts). Forty–one states and one territory have utility–scale wind facilities.