The purpose of the Nebraska Community Energy Alliance (NCEA), an inter-local cooperative agency organized for mutual benefit by municipalities, planning organizations, universities and community colleges, utilities, schools, counties and private interests, is to build and promote advanced technologies for building and transportations that save energy, reduce CO2 emission and smog, and cut the cost of ownership for Nebraskans.
Electricity generated from perpetual, non-polluting and freely available solar power is now nearly cost competitive with electricity derived from conventional, highly polluting (CO2) fuel stocks, such as coal, and when built at utility scale, is an advanced technology that save energy, reduce CO2 emission to zero for electrical generation and cuts the cost of electricity. Since 2006, for example, the cost of the wholesale power in Nebraska has gone up 53% and the cost of solar has come down almost as much.