Nebraska Public Power District, City of Mitchell, Nebraska sign system operation agreement

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) recently entered into an electric system operation agreement with the City of Mitchell, Nebr., under which NPPD will be responsible for maintaining the city’s electric system.

The contract is for five years, and the agreement will be fully in effect by June 1, 2020.

The city noted that there will be no change in monthly electric billing from the city or in the process of reporting an outage or service problem.

“Business in Mitchell with the electric grid will not change,” Mitchell City Manager Perry Mader said. “We will still own and operate our own electric grid. NPPD will be handling the maintenance we need with their crews out of Scottsbluff.”

NPPD also has similar agreements with several other communities, including Lexington and South Sioux City.

“We have a professional and highly-trained crew of journey linemen that handle the distributions lines in Scottsbluff and other local communities,” NPPD’s Scottsbluff Superintendent Dennis Wademan said. “Our crews respond as soon as possible to power outages in those communities, and we typically have outages remedied within a short period of time. We plan to carry out the same level of service to the Mitchell community as we do in other communities we serve.”