Renewable Share of Electricity Generation · Nebraska

## What this measures

How much of the electricity generated in Nebraska came from renewable sources: hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. Annual, in percent of total in-state net generation from all fuels, 2001 on.

## Why it matters

It is the plainest measure of how far Nebraska's power plants have moved away from fossil fuels, and it frames the state's exposure to fuel prices, its clean-energy targets and the weather (wind, sun and rainfall all move it).

## How to read it

Percent of all in-state generation. Hydro-heavy states (in the Northwest) have been high for decades; most of the rise elsewhere since 2010 is wind and solar. A dry year cuts hydro and lowers the share without any change in the plants. The shares of all fuels add up to 100; the State Dossier's generation panel shows the full mix for the newest year and ten years earlier.

## What it does not say

It counts where power is generated, not where it is used: a state that imports much of its electricity, or exports it, can have a generation mix very different from what its customers consume. It covers utility-scale plants (1 megawatt and up) only, so rooftop solar is not in it. Rooftop solar, which EIA estimates separately, would raise the share in sunny states; it is kept in each reading's metadata but not counted. The newest year can be revised when the Energy Information Administration finalizes its annual data.

## Source

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Operational Data (Forms EIA-923 and EIA-860), net generation for all sectors in Nebraska, read annually through the EIA API v2 (electricity/electric-power-operational-data). EIA fuel codes: renewables are conventional hydroelectric (HYC), wind (WND), utility-scale solar (SUN: photovoltaic and solar thermal), geothermal (GEO) and biomass (BIO: wood and wood waste plus landfill gas, biogenic municipal waste and other biomass). Pumped-storage hydro and small-scale rooftop solar are left out. A work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. §105), public domain; EIA asks to be credited as "Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration" with the publication date. The share is a Palanor calculation: the fuel's net generation divided by EIA's all-fuels total, both kept in each reading's metadata. Refreshed monthly.