March 1, 2025 marks the 18th year Metropolitan Utilities District and Omaha Public Power District are hosting the event to raise money for utility assistance programs for customers struggling to pay their bills.
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The proposed $2.3 billion budget was presented to directors during their committee meetings Tuesday. If directors approve the proposed COP at December’s board meeting, OPPD will implement a 6.3% average increase among all customer groups.
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Stay safe against scammers trying to take advantage of OPPD customers by falsely representing themselves.
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OPPD works on a number of fronts to be a good steward to our environment and remains committed to engaging our customers, the community and other stakeholders.
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With an increased demand for electricity, OPPD is constructing, expanding and rebuilding its transmission network.
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Starting Monday, OPPD will be conducting aerial inspections of transmission lines and equipment to help ensure reliability and resiliency of our electric system.
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Community resource fairs offer a one-stop shop for customers to learn about programs and services provided by OPPD.
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OPPD is answering a call for additional power restoration support in the southeast. Hurricane Helene made landfall late Thursday night.
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Amid unprecedented energy demand, a massive effort is underway to double OPPD’s generation capacity by the end of this decade.
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The inspections began this morning and are planned to take place over the course of four days, going through Thursday, Aug. 29.
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On the evening of July 31, more than 221,000 OPPD customers, lost power – some for several hours and others for nearly eight days.
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As of 12:30 p.m., our teams were working to restore power to about 39,300 customers, the remaining 18% of customers who are still without power after Wednesday’s devastating storm. At the peak, 218,332 customers were in the dark.
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OPPD has new estimates of how long it will take to restore power to our customers after Wednesday evening’s hurricane-force winds rocked our service territory.
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As OPPD and mutual aid crews push to restore power following Wednesday night’s historic storm, we are beginning to receive reports from customers of scammers trying to take advantage of the situation.
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OPPD is responding in force to a major outage event affecting 218,000 customers in our service territory. This event will be among the largest restoration events we’ve undertaken, and it is all-hands-on-deck.
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Omaha Public Power District’s 17-person mutual aid team is headed back from Illinois today after assisting both MidAmerican Energy and ComEd with power restoration.
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OPPD rates averaged across all classes were 16.2% below the regional average and 25.5% below the national average.
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OPPD is working in partnership with other local and regional public power utilities to raise awareness of these scams among our customers, identify scammers’ trends, and get their phone numbers shut down when possible.
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OPPD is hosting two pilot community resource fairs to help connect our customers with the resources they need for employment, physical and mental health resources, family support, financial assistance, and more.
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OPPD is responding to thousands of power outages across 11 counties following a round of strong overnight storms.
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