Superior unplugging from NPPD

If all goes as members of the Superior City Council expect it will, the lights won’t go out and the city’s electrical energy customers will benefit from lower cost electrical power.

The five members of the city council present for the meeting voted unanimously Monday evening, to disconnect the city’s electrical energy system from the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD).

For decades the public power agency was the city’s main electrical energy supplier. Since the Republican River power plant was decommissioned as part of the Kansas-Bostwick irrigation project, the city has received a portion...