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Posted on 12/29/2025 6:05:54 AM PST by Mean Daddy
Today, Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a notice of Voluntary Dismissal of his lawsuit against Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), recognizing OPPD’s vote last week to maintain critical generation online at the North Omaha Station.
“We brought this lawsuit because public power providers should not achieve their self-imposed environmental goals by raising prices for Nebraska consumers,” said Attorney General Hilgers. “After last week’s vote, OPPD’s plans for the North Omaha Station now align with their twin mandates of affordability and reliability in delivering electricity to Nebraskans. Having accomplished our purpose on behalf of Nebraska consumers, our lawsuit may now be dismissed without prejudice—meaning it could be brought again if circumstances change.”
Public power providers are supposed to prioritize affordability of the electricity they produce and reliability of the electric grid they oversee. OPPD’s past proposal for North Omaha Station furthered neither objective. Instead, in a time of rapidly increasing demand for electricity, OPPD’s proposal would have threatened grid reliability and created conditions where OPPD ratepayers would likely be subjected to higher costs. Last week’s vote by OPPD will now ensure that critical power generation remains online.
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The way I read this is, is since Nebraska is public energy only, moving to more expensive, green energy is going to get them sued as green energy is more expensive and goes against the state laws on public power. I’m assuming the state legislature would have to pass new laws.
An example oh how Republicans can run on affordable energy. Their failure to emphasize this contributed to their recent bad showing in Viginia.
They sued themselves. The Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) is not a private business; it’s a public corporation and a political subdivision of the state of Nebraska, making it a publicly owned, not-for-profit utility controlled by its customers through an elected board of directors. OPPD’s revenue is reinvested into its infrastructure, and its focus is serving the public, not generating private profit, unlike private utility companies. So win or lose, the money would have gone from bank account into another with the cost of the action being passed on to the taxpayer while the government does what they want anyway. Lose/lose to the taxpayer.
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A great example of how the “green” scam is basically the creation of an artificial shortage to raise prices.
Not sure how the link got changed but here’s an updated link to the story.
https://chadronradio.com/ag-hilgers-announces-successful-resolution-in-oppd-lawsuit/
Typical of the gentry class' idea of noblesse oblige: it's always their noblesse, and our oblige.
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