The mission of the Nebraska Community Energy Alliance is to build and promote advanced technologies for housing and transportation that save energy, reduce CO2 pollution and cut costs. 

NCEA defines an advanced technology as one that lowers energy use, reduces CO2 and other harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and cuts costs to communities.

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.

Today, NCEA is 37 members and growing. Additional members are Dakota County, Allen Consolidated Schools, Valley, Omaha Public Power District, the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MPO), Metro Community College, UNO, UNL Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at Peter Kiewit Institute, Gretna, Ashland, Lincoln (MPO), Hastings, Kearney, Superior, Minden, North Platte, Grand Island, Fremont, Auburn Department of Public Works, Aurora, and the Nebraska Safety Center at UNK, Stromsburg, Central Community College, Norfolk, Beatrice. Associate Members are Lincoln Electric System, Nebraska Public Power District, and The Nature Conservancy.

The purpose of the Nebraska Community Energy Alliance (NCEA) is to build and promote advanced technologies in buildings and transportation, the two largest users of energy and the two largest generators of harmful emissions in the U.S.  NCEA defines an advanced technology as one that saves energy, reduces harmful greenhouse gas emissions and cuts costs to communities and organizations.

To advance its mission, NCEA organized as an inter-local cooperative agency, a government entity comprised of governments, to submit requests for funding as a primary sponsor with the Nebraska Environmental Trust. The Trust funds grants in the category of Air Quality, requiring demonstration of CO2 reduction and economic benefit to Nebraska, both of which meet the mission of NCEA. NCEA publishes the economic and environmental benefits of each project at this site.

In order to scale the commercialization of advanced air quality technologies beyond governments, direct the planned deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and reduce the cost of building clean energy and transportation infrastructure, NCEA approves a new membership category – the Associate Class. NCEA members of the Associate Class may be an organization, a government, a private enterprise, a utility or an individual.