Service Area
Wheat Belt's service territory covers approximately 3,600 square miles of the southern portion of the Nebraska panhandle. Parts of seven counties are served - Banner, Morrill, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Keith, and Arthur. The communities of Sunol, Gurley, Dalton, Lorenzo, and Redington are supplied by Wheat Belt PPD. Within the service area, the towns of Broadwater, Lisco, Oshkosh, Lodgepole, Lewellen, and Big Springs are supplied with energy by NPPD (Nebraska Public Power District), and Sidney and Chappell are members of the MEAN (Municipal Energy Association of Nebraska). The Wheat Belt PPD main office is located in Sidney, Nebraska; two outposts are located in the towns of Dalton and Oshkosh.
As of December 2025, Wheat Belt has 164 miles of transmission line, 2,201 miles of overhead distribution, and another 159 miles of underground distribution. The load is divided into 1,845 rural and town residential services, 1,385 seasonal services, 1,009 irrigation accounts, 551 small commercials (under one MVA), 12 industrial accounts (over one MVA), and 263 lighting and public facilities.
In 2025, kWh sales totaled $158.7 million with revenues of over $22 million. In 2025, Wheat Belt's winter peak is approximately 19.3 MW, while the summer peak was 54.4 MW, a direct result of our irrigation load.