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The Electric Utility Industry in Nebraska presented to: Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry January 30, 2014

The Electric Utility Industry in Nebraska presented to: Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry January 30, 2014. John McClure General Counsel Nebraska Public Power District. Timothy J. Burke VP, Customer Service & Public Affairs Omaha Public Power District.

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The Electric Utility Industry in Nebraska presented to: Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry January 30, 2014

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  1. The Electric Utility Industry in Nebraska presented to: Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry January 30, 2014 John McClure General Counsel Nebraska Public Power District Timothy J. Burke VP, Customer Service & Public Affairs Omaha Public Power District

  2. Nebraska Electric Utility Structure

  3. Nebraska Generation Capacity Under construction or planned Biomass-<1% Carbon-free Wind-17% 33% Hydro-3% Nuclear-13% Megawatts Other fossil-1% Gas-19% Oil-4% Coal-43%

  4. Items of note… • Utilities have self-imposed renewable energy goals and are meeting or exceeding them. • Wind energy installation in Nebraska has quadrupled since 2010. • Current and proposed wind energy investment is more than $2 billion.

  5. Nebraska Electric Utility Generation Utilization (2011) includes regulatory requirement 15% Megawatts Peak Demand Generating Capability

  6. 2014 Projected Industrial Rate Comparison U.S. 7.07₵ Region 6.62₵ 11% Nebraska 5.90₵ 16% Cents per Kilowatt-Hour LES, OPPD, NPPD

  7. Nebraska Electric Reliability Measures (2012) Customer Outage Time / Customers Served Total # Customer Outages / Customers Served Minutes per year Outages per year Nebraska Region Nebraska Region

  8. Customer Satisfaction for Public Power • JD Power & Associates conducts the industries most extensive customer satisfaction survey including the 126 largest electric utilities in the U.S. • In 2013, 12 out of the 15 top scores were awarded to public power utilities • OPPD has achieved the highest score in the Midwest mid-size region for the last 13 years • Public power utilities generally have high satisfaction ratings

  9. Economic Development • Public power utilities have a long history of involvement in local, regional and state chamber organizations and activities • Objectives: • Support local business retention and expansion efforts. • Promote/Market Nebraska as business growth and expansion location. • Provide economic development expertise, services and training to local economic developers.

  10. Public Boards • Public boards are directly accountable to the electric customer-owners they serve • Customers have direct access to the boards on a frequent basis • Board members receive the same level of service as their customer-owners • Public utility board have consistently demonstrated that they are responsive to customer-owners

  11. Questions

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