Omaha Public Power District

That's for the index.

That's the amount Google put in to OPPD customers with their bills.

Why do I feel like I won't see any of that? I won't see any of that.

They made a big announcement.

I mean, ever driving up by Fort Calhoun and just boom, this huge nuclear power plant.

Well, anyway, it closed in 2016 and OPPD announced they haven't announced what they're going to do with that land yet.

But I don't know if there was like sourcing ideas for it, but that's a lot of land along the river.

The craziest thing about this is I don't know how much you guys know about nuclear energy, but the nuclear fuel that was left after they closed is still on site.

640,000 gallons of nuclear fuel.

So I don't know.

If you guys had 660 acres along the river, what would you like to see there? If OPPD was open to all these different options, we're looking at parks, developments, houses.

You don't think they're going to do something with like energy since OPPD?

Yes,

I think that was, you know, as therapists, most of us know, okay, I can call this, I can call that, I can call, you know, OPPD or MUD.

Like, I know that those resources are available, right? But I think that the catch is what you just said.

This, I have to help them do it.

Yeah, it's a massive shift.

Let's look locally at the Omaha Public Power District, or OPPD.

They serve the largest metropolitan area in the state.

They just approved a $2.98 billion corporate operating plan for 2026, almost $3 billion for a single year's operation.

And reading the fine print, that's after the Institute of Massive Internal Cuts, right?

Exactly.

The sources note that OPPD's management had to scramble to cut $60 million internally just to keep the rate hike down to 6.3%.

They implemented a strict hiring freeze for all non-critical roles.

Never before in history has the federal government used all its power to come after one state, killing thousands of jobs to shut us down.

The governor of Nebraska said yesterday that they tried to shut down the coal plants in Nebraska, like OPPD, which powers Omaha, by the way, but they were able to defeat

them.

My opponent, Peltola, did zero to stop it.

My name is Javier Fernandez.

I'm president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District.

We serve only 13 counties in southeast Nebraska.

It's a much smaller footprint than MPPD.

Right.

And so as Tom talked about, you know, the wide open spaces in the basically the most of the western part of the state are less densely populated, but obviously still very interested in the same conversations around affordability.

As we face today's challenges, those roots that we share, whether it's Lincoln Electric System as a municipality or Omaha Public Power District as a public power district like MPPD, we remain focused on our customers.

That is our primary purpose and reason for being, and that is rooted in ensuring affordability and reliability to the people we serve to grow the Nebraska economy.