The Nebraska Community Energy Alliance (NCEA) was founded in June, 2014, by nine Nebraska communities: South Sioux City, Wayne, Central City, Bellevue, Nebraska City, Seward, Holdrege, Lexington and Gothenburg to sponsor its first Nebraska Environmental Trust (NET) grant of $403,000 to purchase electric and compressed natural gas vehicles and ChargePoint™ charging stations to demonstrate the econo
mic and air quality benefits. Each participating community contributed fifty percent in local match for a total project worth approximately $800,000. Today, NCEA is 24 members and growing, adding to the founding nine communities Dakota County, Allen Consolidated Schools, Valley, Omaha Public Power District, the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MPO), Metro Community College, UNO Center for Urban Sustainability, UNL Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at Peter Kiewit Institute, Gretna, Ashland, Lincoln (MPO), Hastings, and Kearney. NCEA has won two grants this year to the NET, the first for community-based solar power at Central City and Gothenburg totaling $349,000, and the second for 11 electric vehicles, 5 compressed natural gas vehicles, 21 ChargePoint™charging stations at 19 locations totaling $490,030." NCEA is an inter-local cooperative agency.
