Nebraska Public Power District’s (NPPD) Cooper Nuclear Station is celebrating 50 years of generating reliable energy for Nebraska. It first came on-line Monday, July 1, 1974.
Nebraska’s longest and only current operating nuclear power plant, located near Brownville, has a capacity of roughly 800 megawatts. Over the past five decades, Cooper Nuclear Station has generated nearly 275 million megawatt-hours of carbon-free electricity. Throughout the past two years, NPPD has provided Nebraska customers with about 56 percent carbon-free energy. Of that, 42 percent of the carbon-free generation coming from Cooper.
“We are thankful to have one of the most talented teams in the country working at Cooper Nuclear Station, providing our customers with safely generated, around-the-clock electricity. Nuclear is a tremendous resource within NPPD’s diverse generation mix and is essential to the reliable, lowcost and sustainable energy our customers enjoy. Cooper employs more than 600 people and is a tremendous economic driver for Southeast Nebraska,” said Tom Kent, NPPD president and CEO.
