NMPP Energy™

The Nebraska Municipal Power Pool (NMPP) was created in 1975 as 19 municipal electric utilities pooled their resources to better handle escalating fuel prices while still serving their communities effectively and efficiently.

The passage of legislation in 1981 allowed the formation of the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), a wholesale electric supply organization. NMPP then shifted its focus on providing energy-related services.

Since its inception, MEAN has relied upon member generation as part of its power supply and, with its growth, has steadily secured a diverse supply portfolio outside member generation. Today MEAN supplies wholesale electricity to more than 65 communities in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming.

Echoing the principles of local control and working together, four communities who owned their own natural gas systems and were seeking to secure a reliable, low-cost gas supply formed the Nebraska Public Gas Agency in 1991. With the addition of NPGA under the NMPP umbrella, a new company trade name — NMPP Energy — was created to reflect the diversity of the organization. As NPGA expanded the name was changed from “Nebraska” to “National” in 2002. Today, NPGA serves approximately 30 communities in eight states.

NMPP Energy jumped into the retail natural gas arena in 1998 when a group of Nebraska communities that did not own their own gas systems saw an opportunity to take charge of their natural gas rates by competing as a supplier in the Nebraska Choice Gas program. The Public Alliance for Community Energy (ACE) was created with the mission of supplying competitively priced natural gas, and at the same time, keeping revenues in the state to benefit all member communities.

Today, ACE supplies natural gas to nearly 28,000 customers and includes 71 member communities and one public power district.

The entities that make up NMPP Energy serve separate needs to their member communities. Collectively, however, they subscribe to the core philosophies of local control and working together in providing reliable, low-cost energy and energy-related services to member communities.